Reflection: Grieving Futures (Grieving Futures)
I am always at a loss to explain the title of this book. It has had the same title, for the same reason, since I first toyed with the idea of writing it back in the late 90s.
Jun 24, 2024 3 min read
Grieving Futures
Surviving the Deaths of My Parents
I am slowly posting the entirety of Grieving Futures: Surviving the Deaths of My Parents, here on Patience & Fortitude for free. General warnings are in place: this book address grief, mourning, self-harm, anger, poverty, and pet death, all in the context of becoming an adult orphan in my twenties. You can still buy the book if you would like (doing so helps support my writing!).
The Happy Ending (Grieving Futures)
“The End” means the end of the story, not the end of life, and so a happy ending is one where the characters live blessed and personally fulfilling lives.
Grieving Futures continues with “The Empty Bowl”
I am in the midst of working—slowly, so very slowly—on what you might call the next installment of Patience & Fortitude: "The Empty Bowl." Whereas the first installment, "Grieving Futures," was about the trauma I experienced during and after the deaths of my parents, "The Empty Bowl" is going to be a bigger-picture story. It will be the memoir of two very broken people trying to raise a very odd child.