Image Credit: Tina’s personal archive My daughter in her Grief Girl mask. Her mask gives her as much solace and comfort as it does power. She takes it on and off, in need and when playing. It is a place for her, a place to create; a whole new person, a dance, images like this one. She has been … [Read more...]
Words
Image Credit: Tina’s personal archive Sometimes I don’t have the words. They are heavy to form, heavy to come by, heavy to express. I feel like I am under water, trying to speak and undefined sounds come out. They don’t even form in my brain. Grief has had this effect on me. Whenever my life … [Read more...]
Captured Moments
Image Credit: Tina’s personal archive Moments, captured, kept, protected. I always liked taking pictures but didn’t really take many. About 10 months after Tapio died, I learned that taking pictures eases my anxiety, so this is one of my go to activities on those days. I go out and take … [Read more...]
His ~Magic~
Image Credit: Tina’s personal archive There are so many things that I don’t remember. I don’t remember how it felt before grief took over; how relationships and life in general influenced my emotional and mental state then. Was I always happy and content? Was my mind not as occupied? I … [Read more...]
“Better”
Image Credit: Tina’s personal archive The days are getting longer in the north where I am. Winter filled. Snow, ice, cold. I feel I have been doing better, whatever better means. I take better with some reservation, because every day is still hard and painful. Better is hard making itself … [Read more...]
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