Thank you for sharing your story. I relate to the feeling of seasons reminding me of long-ago experiences that brought about grief. For me, it was the furnace turning on in the fall that brought me back to a place of sadness.
And the poem is beautiful. It gives me a strong connection to the streaming show, Severance. Employees of a mysterious corporation go through a procedure every day that disconnects their work lives from their personal lives. Their memories of each place are severed, and they have no idea who they are on the outside (or inside). It was a fascinating exploration on this very theme of divorcing our brain from our heart and what happens when you try to reconnect.
Anyway, I love this prompt, and I’ll be writing to my body about why it’s slowing me down at such a young age when I have so much mental energy.
Thanks, Jen for your thoughtful response. I'm grateful for your mental energy and have benefitted from it as a reader. Your comment about the furnace turning on prompted me to go back and reread your piece about the bathroom and furnace repairs, and grief—so powerful. I have avoided watching Severance and I'm not sure why—perhaps because the whole idea troubles me, but all my current shows have ended (Somebody Somewhere, Succession, Maisel, Ted Lasso....do I watch too much??) I need something new, so will try it.
I have been working through my own issues with how my body has betrayed me & the timing of your post is serendipitous. Listening to John Roedel read that poem was incredibly powerful. Thank you for this thought-provoking prompt and post.
Your personal sharing, Julie, plus the Roedel poem simply blew me away. I struggle, and have struggled since my early teens, with mind-body warfare. I look forward to jumping into the prompts and seeing where I go. Thanks for posts that seem, each and every one, to be written just for me.
Always grateful for your thoughtful comments, SarahLee. And thanks for sharing the term mind-body warfare. Wishing you—and all of us—peace talks and reconciliation.
Thank you for sharing your story. I relate to the feeling of seasons reminding me of long-ago experiences that brought about grief. For me, it was the furnace turning on in the fall that brought me back to a place of sadness.
And the poem is beautiful. It gives me a strong connection to the streaming show, Severance. Employees of a mysterious corporation go through a procedure every day that disconnects their work lives from their personal lives. Their memories of each place are severed, and they have no idea who they are on the outside (or inside). It was a fascinating exploration on this very theme of divorcing our brain from our heart and what happens when you try to reconnect.
Anyway, I love this prompt, and I’ll be writing to my body about why it’s slowing me down at such a young age when I have so much mental energy.
Thanks, Jen for your thoughtful response. I'm grateful for your mental energy and have benefitted from it as a reader. Your comment about the furnace turning on prompted me to go back and reread your piece about the bathroom and furnace repairs, and grief—so powerful. I have avoided watching Severance and I'm not sure why—perhaps because the whole idea troubles me, but all my current shows have ended (Somebody Somewhere, Succession, Maisel, Ted Lasso....do I watch too much??) I need something new, so will try it.
I have been working through my own issues with how my body has betrayed me & the timing of your post is serendipitous. Listening to John Roedel read that poem was incredibly powerful. Thank you for this thought-provoking prompt and post.
Glad you found it powerful, Corinne. I've listened to him read it several times, and hear something new each time.
Your personal sharing, Julie, plus the Roedel poem simply blew me away. I struggle, and have struggled since my early teens, with mind-body warfare. I look forward to jumping into the prompts and seeing where I go. Thanks for posts that seem, each and every one, to be written just for me.
Always grateful for your thoughtful comments, SarahLee. And thanks for sharing the term mind-body warfare. Wishing you—and all of us—peace talks and reconciliation.