Comments on: a Rip van Winkle moment with my mother http://butyes.net/?p=679 experiencing this, now... instinctuality • immediacy • the felt sense • deep listening • the awakened eye Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:56:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: kye http://butyes.net/?p=679&cpage=1#comment-176 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:56:34 +0000 http://butyes.net/?p=679#comment-176 It was harder at first; but lately especially it's gotten much easier. There is something to be said for the power of familiarity. Partly it's just that the thing itself has become unsurprising. Also, little ways of coping arrive over time, small rituals and ways of being with oneself.

When she was able to talk, it appeared that she didn't really know she was ill. She doesn't seem to suffer from the '2nd order' kind of suffering engendered by anxiety. Her face is usually peaceful; sometimes she'll look a little distressed but not in general.

]]> By: Madeleine Kolb http://butyes.net/?p=679&cpage=1#comment-175 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:51:03 +0000 http://butyes.net/?p=679#comment-175 Kye, How hard it must be to visit your mother and not be certain whether she will be “there” or not. It must be heartening to have her respond as she did during this visit. I wonder what her illness feels like to her.

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