It’s been a moment, or 977,760. Many of them have been spent navigating an ocean of personal grief, an ocean I’ve been swimming in since the suicide of my 40 year old son, 1 year, 7 months and 4 days ago. Today, on my 66th birthday, after a long period of literally feeling like my relationship with words was also lost, I greeted this project again. Although that ocean is mine to forever swim in, I will hopefully raise my head above water and meet you and Emily regularly for word waltzes beginning with the first lines of the word gardens she planted long ago.
For those of you new to this blog, I started this project in 2021 and dreamt that I could complete it in one year. The universe is still laughing at me!
Today’s co-creation begins with the line, “Have any like myself”. In her original, Emily wonders aloud to the reader if they too have noticed what she has about the changing landscape surrounding her home in Amherst, Massachusetts and its relationship to one’s own changing inner landscapes and perceptions.
At this very moment in the disUnited States of America, our institutional and governmental landscapes are changing. The impacts of these changes are both personal and societal as our country’s future is created and reveals itself and we each deal with those changes in the ways we either choose, or are forced to.
”Have any like myself”
The Carol and Emily Project 