Comments on: Where’s the Sun?

By: Laura Mills

Laura Mills — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:48:16 +0000

I just found out today about your father’s passing. I’m so sorry and send my heartfelt condolences. I don’t know what to say or how to say it…I’m pleased that he was able to enjoy life fully until his day arrived. I would like to say “thank you” to him through you for all he did for me after my father passed. I wish you and your family a heart full of joyous memories to sustain you when you miss him most. I know that’s what works for me. Peace and love.

By: Thorn Coyle

Thorn Coyle — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:33:43 +0000

Love to you. Much love to you. Much, much, much love to you.

By: moonroot

moonroot — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:14:57 +0000

I am so sorry to hear of your loss, Anne. Much love.

By: Chas Clifton

Chas Clifton — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:53:02 +0000

Sorry to hear of your father’s passing. You will remember this summer as his funeral pyre, perhaps, and how you realized that you were becoming “the older generation.”

By: Donald Engstrom-Reese

Donald Engstrom-Reese — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:26:51 +0000

My condolences Anne.

I wrote this poem this morning thinking about you and your father.

When One’s Father Dies
Donald L. Engstrom-Reese
© June 28, 2008

When one’s father dies,
A line of possibility ends,
A poem of relationship slips
Into the Realms of Memory and the Dreamtime.

When one’s father dies,
The conversation ends,
A dialogue of living words
Transforms into the liminal languages of the newly dead.

When one’s father dies,
An unquenchable thirst fills the beating heart,
An insatiable longing sticks in the torn throat,
A liquid fire flows down tender flesh
Pooling in the stills of bitter transmutation.

After forty three years,
I still forget that my father
Can only talk to me
In dreams or in the Ancestral Lands.

There is not a single day that goes by
That I do not miss him walking beside me,
Living father and living son,
Thriving flesh exploring the multiverse together.

By: Pandora

Pandora — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:42:40 +0000

Hi, sweetie.

much love to you — may you have good and loving and powerful grief, and may you and your family have joy in the midst of the grief. A deep loss.

love, Pandora

By: Inanna

Inanna — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:12:38 +0000

Dear Anne, I am so sorry to hear of your loss. I am also grateful to hear of your father’s long life and his swift passing. Blessings, condolences, and love.

By: deborah oak

deborah oak — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:55:06 +0000

My condolences, Anne.

Thank you for this post. My father killed himself at winter solstice, many years back, and your post reminds me of the relentless that winter of the rain. Creeks and dams were overflowing and there was water, water, everywhere.

This summer is different. I don’t remember one with as much fire. My sister was evacuated once from her home and last week her husband had to evacuate from his work. Santa Cruz is plagued with fires. I guess the whole state is…

May the wheel turn and that which is inflamed be soothed. In the midst of the water, my father electrocuted himself. I find it so strange that yours died in water in the midst of fire.

Again, my condolences. I love you.