![]() ![]() This is a brief reflection and video talk from 2018, where a cold snap froze us in early February like it had done in 1990. Since encountering Lewis’ stunning book, A Grief Observed, some year ago, I have been using his memoir to shape my experience and support others in times of loss. While the weather has changed, on this day, February 4th, it is hard not to go back to that night when my whole life changed, where my awakening into young adulthood was linked with horror and grief. This January in Prince Edward Island, we have had the kind of frightful cold snap that reminds my me of that childhood night of terror–though the cold has now broken into snow and storm. Here is a little piece on a special day: the anniversary of the death of my father and brother on a villainously cold night when I was fourteen, and on the eve of the anniversary of my mother’s passing in 2016. ![]()
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