Phrase by 'Meghan O'Rourke'

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Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

Author: Meghan O'Rourke - American Poet
  Me , Feel , Death , Face


My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

Author: Meghan O'Rourke - American Poet
  Day , Mother , Deep , Fake


Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

Author: Meghan O'Rourke - American Poet
  Always , World , Writing , Way


But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

Author: Meghan O'Rourke - American Poet
  People , Feeling , Alone , Grief


One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

Author: Meghan O'Rourke - American Poet
  Home , World , Mother , Death


One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Author: Meghan O'Rourke - American Poet
  Ideas , Life , Work , My Life


My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

Author: Meghan O'Rourke - American Poet
  Time , Day , Mother , Death


Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

Author: Meghan O'Rourke - American Poet
  Me , Mother , Die , Loss


When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

Author: Meghan O'Rourke - American Poet
  Myself , Remember , Sick , Mother


And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

Author: Meghan O'Rourke - American Poet
  More , People , Mother , Death


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