A beautiful piece indeed. So much to love here. That you are able to articulate so well the ties that bind our families together sometimes because, but often in spite, of who we are.
Wow, this is a beautiful piece of writing. I started reading and then I stopped everything to sit down and read it all the way through properly. Very emotional and eloquently put. It's difficult to express the complexity of people and emotions in relation to both themselves and how they affect other people, but you did so incredibly eloquently. Very much enjoyed, and happy birthday! :)
Dec 5, 2023·edited Dec 5, 2023Liked by Charlotte Freeman
Happy birthday this week.
This is why we have chosen family. :) People who end up being our family when the biological ones aren't enough. I've finally found mine, and this year is ending up in an amazing way.
The past.... is the past. We can't dwell on it for too long. You can't change it. It's just there. The future is ahead of us... but what's most important is right now. Enjoying those moments. Each day. Finding our people and our hobbies and just living in the moment. <3
Happy birthday for this week. And let me say how very beautifully you have written about this. As someone who lives far from his family, your image of family and bodies once together "in a pile" but no longer really resonated with me.
This was such a tender way of moving through in real time the feelings between birth and death, of ourselves, of others. Sending happy birthdays along to you--and I'm going to sit with that idea of belonging to the second body, the wider world, where if we're lucky, we get to choose our relations, as well as the messy belonging to the kindred of our animal body. 💜
💔💔💔 my mom is also dead
A beautiful piece indeed. So much to love here. That you are able to articulate so well the ties that bind our families together sometimes because, but often in spite, of who we are.
Wow, this is a beautiful piece of writing. I started reading and then I stopped everything to sit down and read it all the way through properly. Very emotional and eloquently put. It's difficult to express the complexity of people and emotions in relation to both themselves and how they affect other people, but you did so incredibly eloquently. Very much enjoyed, and happy birthday! :)
Sending love, birthday wishes and deep appreciation.
Happy birthday this week.
This is why we have chosen family. :) People who end up being our family when the biological ones aren't enough. I've finally found mine, and this year is ending up in an amazing way.
The past.... is the past. We can't dwell on it for too long. You can't change it. It's just there. The future is ahead of us... but what's most important is right now. Enjoying those moments. Each day. Finding our people and our hobbies and just living in the moment. <3
-Katie K. :)
Happy birthday for this week. And let me say how very beautifully you have written about this. As someone who lives far from his family, your image of family and bodies once together "in a pile" but no longer really resonated with me.
This was such a tender way of moving through in real time the feelings between birth and death, of ourselves, of others. Sending happy birthdays along to you--and I'm going to sit with that idea of belonging to the second body, the wider world, where if we're lucky, we get to choose our relations, as well as the messy belonging to the kindred of our animal body. 💜
Happy almost 60th Birthday, Char!! I love the photo, love your thoughts, and mostly love you!