Bruce Lee Helped Me Come to Terms With the Death of My Son
January 4, 2017 7:43 AM   Subscribe

 
That was very moving - the beauty and ultimately banality of death and love.
posted by latkes at 7:57 AM on January 4, 2017 [1 favorite]


I made it to the part where the stranger left a note and a photo of his kids before having to stop. Not gonna burst into tears on the train to work.
posted by pipoquinha at 8:16 AM on January 4, 2017 [2 favorites]


Yeah the thing about the note made me tear up at work too. Such a lovely gesture.
posted by sevenyearlurk at 9:06 AM on January 4, 2017 [2 favorites]


That was lovely, thank you for posting.
posted by gatorae at 9:10 AM on January 4, 2017


Linda has given us views into her private experience of the death of her son many times over the years. As an former coworker of hers, and as someone who also lost a child, I'm grateful that she casts some light onto that particularly shadowy part of the human experience.

I'm also a little discomfited, I think because I try to imagine myself doing what she does, and I can't. I can't imagine reprocessing those emotions over and over, myself. For me, I don't think it would be healthy -- that's not the way my brain's wired. I think I would spiral downward.

I'm so, so glad it's the way her brain is wired, though. Reading her stories has helped me process my own feelings. Just as importantly, she's used her experience to advocate for child vaccination. Sometimes I feel like I should be using my experience in a similar way. But nope.
posted by gurple at 9:22 AM on January 4, 2017 [6 favorites]


Thank you for sharing this, it's beautiful and very moving.

Her name and writing seemed familiar and I worked out it was from this previous FPP. There as here she expressed herself incredibly eloquently.
posted by *becca* at 3:21 AM on January 5, 2017


That was beautiful. Thank you for posting it.
posted by jammy at 10:16 AM on January 5, 2017


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