Grief and Gratitude, Grok - Shifting

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Thanks MamaG,

Reminders of the positive are appreciated. Even when I wrote them! I can have a hard time with seeing…when I get wrapped up with the hard bits.

(If you want to see, make an alternate anonymous account on that giant social media site that is a book of faces LOL and use MamaG as your name, something DB related as last name)

I’ve read Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce by Elizabeth Marquardt

And now I’m struggling to read Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak by Leila Miller (A free PDF of her book is on her website)

Oh, not because I’m a poor reader (my 15 bookcases say otherwise) but because it hits so hard to KNOW my children will experience this. I must … to be able to see it in them and do what I can.

When my melancholy and awareness of destruction, across generations hits…. It is cold and dark.

So Cold - Breaking Benjamin

[Verse 2]
If you find your family, don't you cry
In this land of make-believe, dead and dry
You're so cold, but you feel alive
Lay your hand on me, one last time

[Chorus]
Show me how it ends, it's all right
Show me how defenseless you really are
Satisfied and empty inside
Well, that's all right
Let's give this another try

“The setting is the 19th century, and first depicts a preacher positioned by a swamp. The camera then moves to a large group of individuals walking through a forest. One of these people can be seen carrying a large stone with the Breaking Benjamin Celtic knot engraved on it. The man is being punished and tortured for the crime of infidelity and unfaithfulness towards his wife, chained to the stone throughout the video. When the video is almost over, the rest of the people finally arrive at the swamp where the preacher is located. The man carrying the stone willingly walks into the swamp and drowns to death. During the video's climax, the man's wife stands over the swamp he drowned in adorned in a black robe, and the other woman is adorned in a white robe.
(tldr: he’s chained to the stone so he can’t let go and he’s being executed for cheating on his wife)”

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