Beyond the Immobility
What makes it so difficult for those that grieve to be able to move? Why is the sadness so overwhelming? Why is it silent, and hard? Why is it that sometimes all you can do is sit? It’s been 40 days. Not sure if I would call it wilderness wanderings, but perhaps widowness meandering.
Widowed after forty plus years of marriage, Deborah D Fleet is exploring these and other questions as she sits immovable, immobilized on her bed, with her cat breaking the silence by her soft touch, gentle noise of purring, and tail wrapping around her over and over. Let’s look at this together. This lonesome journey has just begun…and I feel rather like a cowgirl sitting on a horse looking at the sunset, overlooking the hills and plains and wondering where to go next.
Walk alongside and explore the days, the nights, the downs, the climbs.
With Love ♥ Deborah
Dawn Arrives
Finding Comfort
Finding Joy
Faith
Dealing with Storms
Hope
Contact
- Middle of April
- The Grace of Being Still
- Moving beyond the moment
- Finally! 2024
- 1,001 Days
- Season of the glimmer.
- Paper Punch
- I bought a purple pen
- Faraway Friends
- Summer Mist of Rain
- Not Lost or Forgotten
- Busting Out Joy
- Awake in the Dark
- Place at the Table
- The people we once were
- Awash
- The Day Without a Poem
- Empty Wanting
- Leave a Neon Trail
- Landmarks in Time
- Approximate
- Instant Poof
- Coming up for Air
- I found a poem
- For Your Understanding
- Let’s take our sad and lonely
- Eye of the Beholder
- On Air
- Lost in Thought
- The Second New Day
- The art of Thinking
- How many times?
- Confusion
- Budging
- Touch across the sound
- Nom nom nom
- Breathe in
- Immovable for real
- More moments
- Today it happened
- All it takes is String: My String Theory
- The poet’s heart
- Scurry
- Destiny’s Way
- Need
- Hiccup Transformation
- The ladies on the hill
- There’s a Poem
- Kitty’s Medical Needs
- Four Walls
- Musical Habits
- For Arms – is actually Those Eyes
- Distraction: Taking a moment
- Just Doing It
- For Arms
- Time squeaks away
- Random Thought:
- Another Monument in Time
- Power in Small Things
- Somewhere In the World: Out of This World and I am holding the talking stick.
- But, Where Did That Come From?
- Thinking in Poetic Time
- When You
- Leaving myself a message in a bottle
- Words That Hit a Nerve
- Sharing the Joy of Butterfly Wings
- Bathroom goddess
- The land of flies
- Relief
- Recuperating Tired Out
- Drums
- Gravity pulls
- Tests in time and space
- Reflections on a Silent Saturday
- Music is…
- Take No Fences
- Testing 1, 2, 3
- Music is…
- Becoming
- Quietly
- From Grief’s Diary
- How small is it?
- Home Grown
- Mem’s Legacy
- My Cat Noticed
- Creating a Difference in my Days
- Sleep Waking
- Writing in a Vacuum
- Before I die
- Grasping at Gasping
- From My Rib I Thee Wed
- To Grieve or not to Grieve
- The Song of Wee Hours
- Equilibrium – when all things are equal
- In
- Wanting for Rain
- Poetry Is: 3 short poems
- Monuments in Time
- Keep Walkin’ Darlin’
- Words are my Paintbrushes
2021 2022 2023 alone Anniversary beyond grief Beyond Immobility blessings cat cats change comfort creativity decisions family grief grieving Growth Guitar hope immobility insomnia joy loneliness lonely lonesome love lyrics memories moving on music new love overcoming pain peace poetry Progress solitude strings survival tears widowhood widows winter writing
Being a pair for that length of time makes being a single seem daunting. But hang in there Dee, because in time you will find yourself discovering pieces of yourself you’ve forgotten, smiling instead of crying, trying new things just because you can. I promise…..I know of what I speak 💙
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Faith is an amazing thing. Joined in faith in life, Faith continues. God is good, and I am continuing. Thank you for your kindness.
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I am grieving several losses right now. God will find you and comfort you where you’re at. Take care of yourself.
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