About the time Parnassus book club send me Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful, MKV gave Smith's book Keep Moving, Notes on Loss, Creativity and Change. Simply put, it's a grief book. Arising out of the trauma and grief of the end of her marriage it's a secular compendium of wisdom about fruitful grieving.
Five years ago when I was in the throes of deep grief with Joanne's death it would have been very helpful. Now that grief has subsided to a background hum or dull ache it was a "she's got that right" repetitively. She always writes well, she is a writer. Smith has mined the pain and dislocation, the grief, of marriage's end, and put it in book form. In messages to the grieving reader such as "Accept that what's chasing you isn't going to stop or give up. You're going to have to turn and face it. Plant your feet. Chin up. Stare it down, then keep going. KEEP MOVING" P. 60
Add it to your 'grief library', read it for healing, give it to one who is bereaved.
Takk for alt,
Al
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