tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984330758590198929.post4385391025674301136..comments2023-07-15T08:56:14.052-07:00Comments on ::::::::::Becoming::::::::::: Wait, is that my heart spilled onto the ark's floor?Dr. Joanne Cacciatorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10863060782827061955noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984330758590198929.post-8231538281425060212010-09-28T11:41:02.228-07:002010-09-28T11:41:02.228-07:00Thank you Ava's mom... thank you.Thank you Ava's mom... thank you.Dr. Joanne Cacciatorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10863060782827061955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984330758590198929.post-17973016630512615042010-09-28T10:51:49.364-07:002010-09-28T10:51:49.364-07:00Sometimes, when there are no words, you still find...Sometimes, when there are no words, you still find all the right ones. No where else can I feel in fullness how my grief is the ultimate expression of my love, and to feel full of love and longing that breaks all levees. Long ago the fear of breaking open in front of these strangers has left me, and now I see only the gifts received for the days spent in openness. My thanks to you and all who created the space, the holding environment for all this to unfold.Cherie Ava's Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05409540455200839021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984330758590198929.post-7775517709816558852010-09-23T03:48:15.304-07:002010-09-23T03:48:15.304-07:00Jo, your thoughts are so beautifully written. You ...Jo, your thoughts are so beautifully written. You have taken our tears and our overflowing hearts and turned those into words, and for that, I thank you. The MISS conference, for me, is a sacred place. I feel connected, protected, and loved when I am in Phoenix with my MISS family. Although we are drwan together by grief and pain, the conference is a place of beauty and joy. It is truly an incredible experience to wear my pain openly and have it be beautiful.<br /><br />Hugs to all,<br />NinaNina Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04758041189698543574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984330758590198929.post-21905781914173430672010-09-14T06:24:30.190-07:002010-09-14T06:24:30.190-07:00I love you both my griends.I love you both my griends.Dr. Joanne Cacciatorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10863060782827061955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984330758590198929.post-35137005679610124342010-09-13T22:16:37.419-07:002010-09-13T22:16:37.419-07:00Realized today, Dr. Jo, that the re-entry is so pa...Realized today, Dr. Jo, that the re-entry is so painful for me because we simply do not have a community of that depth and truth outside our MISS family. We have community to be sure. People know us. We know them. We share some with some of them. But the way everything goes to the heart when I walk into my MISS family reunion, they way my MISS family members see my art and get ALL the layers of it without explanation, the way I can laugh my head off one moment and fold into tears the next without any stigma nor commentary needed -- we simply DO NOT have that anywhere else. We just don't. There are not enough in our physical locale who get it or who want to go there.<br /><br />I don't know. It is frustrating. I feel real, I feel called, I feel the truth of why I am still on this planet when with our MISS family. But that all get so washed out and faded by the light pollution and chaos of the normals that it is almost as if I am simply not seen out here in the supposedly "real" world. That is incredibly frustrating.<br /><br />Multiply the frustration by all the families who live equally invisible among the normals. And, well, just shit shit shit. Really?! I just want the world reversed. <br /><br />???<br /><br />Anyway...thank you for this post, for giving continued visibility to all this with your words, work, research. I'm so enormously appreciative of YOU!<br />xoxo<br />meKara Chipoletti Jones of GriefAndCreativity dot comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110578035201758404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984330758590198929.post-26206136874887491772010-09-13T22:14:49.470-07:002010-09-13T22:14:49.470-07:00Yep. Uh huh. Yes. Indeed. That's it. And I nev...Yep. Uh huh. Yes. Indeed. That's it. And I never even wanted the flood to arrive in the first place!Sarah Bainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16332762467194446614noreply@blogger.com