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Beginner's Heart
the hardest kind of letting go
By
Britton Gildersleeve
All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. ~ Buddha As my beloved & my sister-in-law held vigil, my beloved mother-in-law slipped away. Left behind her desolate children (I include myself & my other sister-in-law), her broken-hearted…
a single squirrel
By
Britton Gildersleeve
When I took this picture, I was thrilled. Here was a hawk, on our corner, w/ its kill! And a second later, I noticed another hawk — a mature one, sitting atop the fence behind its offspring, watching as the young one tried to figure out how to eat a dead squirrel. How cool! I…
tragedy, great sorrow, and the breath ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
I have nothing to say after a tragedy of this magnitude. My heart hurts — I have to catch my breath, thinking of sending a child or children off to school, and never seeing them again… My mind races: what have we come to? How did this happen? What can we do to stop these…
planning funerals (spoiler alert: not to hold for a while, hopefully) ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
I want this read at my funeral. Which I hope is many years in the future (my good news yesterday — no cancer! — certainly helps me believe that!). I want it read because it’s what I’ve always believed, even as a small child. We really are stardust — which to me is so magic.…
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