Wonderings on Grief in Eastertide
The Tenth Doctor once said time isn’t quite like what we expect it to be like. He said, “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff” (from the episode Blink in Doctor Who). I’ve only ever experienced time as linear – I lived through middle school once and I DON’T ever have to do that again. Time, as a process, I think, as a law of nature, works in a linear way. But when it comes how time as how we experience emotions – I think it’s more complicated. This week I’ve experienced a lot of grief. In the middle of quarantine, my dad gave us a health scare (he’s okay, for which I am VERY grateful), but my husband and I also lost two of our cats to illness in a span of three days. Grief is incredibly hard, and our fur babies are our real babies. They are family. I’m ...