You Can’t Hurry Grief
Estimated reading time: 0 minutes, 58 secondsGrief’s hold on each of us is how we remember the pain of mourning.
It has been sixteen and one-half months since Jan died.
I wake up every morning alone.
I miss Jan more than ever.
Today I am getting my Flu shot and my third COVID booster.
If only they could create a vaccination for grief.
But as Sigrid Nunez writes in The Friend: A Novel,
You can’t hurry, love, as the song goes. You can’t hurry, grief, either.
As painful as my grief journey has been, it reminds me of how much Jan and I loved each other.
Just as Jan and I did not rush our love, I will not rush my grief!
She is still with me, and our love will never die.
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You Can't Hurry Love
Estimated reading time: 0 minutes, 58 secondsThe Supremes “You Can’t Hurry Love” was performed on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on September 25, 1966.