Tag: Loss
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Lose Your Father Lose Your Son Lose Yourself
Maundy Thursday, washing feet and sharing a meal. This is what Jesus does the day before he goes to die. Before he goes to a garden to pray to ask His Father if there is another way. Good Friday, the crucifixion. He goes to the cross and cries out “My God, My God Why have…
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Wholly Weak: There’s Room for Suffering and Celebration
This year Easter feels weird to me. I don’t know if it’s because last year Easter was 3 weeks earlier or what, but it just feels like it literally came a little late. Like I’m catching up to it. It’s also odd that there is a fair and rodeo this weekend near Charleston and Wrestlemania…
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Major Depressive Episode Season 6
It could be that people experience traumatic situations and just deal with it better or have better support systems or do not focus as much on the loss and have a positive view of the potential opportunity for a restart. They are blessed with self-confidence or self-assurance or favor or popularity and they are able…
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Tony
My dad Anthony (Tony) Louis Passaro Jr. was born on August 23, 1950 over a month premature. He was the only child of my grandmother Mary and grandfather Anthony L Passaro Sr. My grandma had several prior miscarriages before the birth of her only child. From the little I know of his birth, I know…
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Last Call: On Grief and Time
When someone my age dies, grief comes from all angles: from parents, from siblings, from friends, from children. The older ones carried the deceased as far as they could in the ways they knew how. The ones younger expected to be carried, guided, molded. But when someone…
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Mary
It’s hard to imagine the heart failing of someone who loved me so well. Maybe she was finally convinced we’d be okay without her. Maybe her body was just finished; certainly not her mind. Maybe it was just time. I think I’ve learned you can prepare to make an end of living, but not death, for…
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On Loneliness, Loss, and Lasting Love
This is it folks, the blog post that will break the internet. If you couldn’t tell by the title I’m ambitiously going to person-splain the meaning of life. But before I get into it and switch gears, allow me to set the stage of the state I am in while I’m writing. I’m eating candy…
The Reconstructed 