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THE SCENES OF AN EMOTION LITERACY E-ZINE MISSION
STATEMENT THE FAMILIAR VOL. 1 ISS. 2. Missed an issue of the familiar? Click here to browse through our entire back-issue archive! |
The Ebb and Flow of "I Don't Know" Alex's LOSS (THE UNCERTAINTY OF). Dedicated to Josh Laeder. Is it possible to lose someone before they're gone, before you even know if they are leaving? I mean, what if someone has the chance to go somewhere and there really isn't a chance they'll stay, but they haven't actually DECIDED to go? When do you actually lose them? And what about people who are terminally ill? Do you lose them when they are diagnosed, when you know they will die? Or is it when they reach that last stretch? Or when they are actually physically gone? Or is it even after that? Do you lose someone only when you forget their voice, their smile the way they make you laugh or how they can make you cry? When you lose the memory of the person,is that when? And what if you lose someone, but then they come back? Are they then found, or were they never really lost? If you only feel that people have been lost to you, does that count? What if the person that is lost to you doesn't feel that they are lost? Is it possible to lose someone before they're gone? Pamela’s Response to Alex’s "Loss" …your piece really touched me—it's a little lesson for you too in anticipating a certain kind of response which you suspected might be somewhat unfavorable and getting another—a lesson in the reality that a response to your work can be so different than what you imagine—I do that a lot, so I appreciate sharing the lesson. Your stream of consciousness piece has an elegant simplicity to it. The questions are there and, somehow, the deep, deep feeling that accompanies loss lives in those questions. So you are, essentially, expressing the deep feeling without actually saying "I have deep feeling about this." This is the power of language, the power of using language in the elegant way that you have in this piece. Really, there are so many aspects of the experience of loss reflected in this piece. Your piece is a great, great gift to the site—loss is a very important topic to examine. Loss is not just about the physical realm and I think that's what you are grappling with in this piece and for a site about emotion literacy, it's so important to have other aspects of loss be considered and looked at in this way. There's something very artistic about your piece, of course, as well. Art is such a powerful tool when it comes to such a non-linear and complex topic. Thank you for writing this piece and offering it to the site!
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