in the midst: nearly a year has gone by

[elisem]

My sister and I have been talking about childhood learning and adult learning or re-learning, about agency and autonomy, about critical thinking and biases and knowledge and respect and all of that. It's been on both of our minds particularly because we're coming up on the first anniversary of our father's death. There's a book I'm reading about raising critical thinkers. I can't wait to talk about it with my sister.

If you've lost a parent, is there something you were reading about a year later that was particularly meaningful, particularly helpful, to you?

Any advice you might have for someone getting through the year anniversary of the death of a (complicated? estranged? charismatic? difficult?) parent is welcome here in this particular comments section.

And now I'll go back to thinking about what my sister's been saying about things she wishes we could have learned earlier, and ways that learning gets accomplished, as I read this book on raising critical thinkers. (Review upcoming. Probably without too many digressions about Catherine Winkworth, but we'll see.)

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Both my difficult father and his brother died in the spring of this year, well past age 80. What I'm gleaning from the post and comments is that things are no harder or easier when the bereft adult child is a particular age; that's helpful in its way, in terms of self-allowance with how I try learning to process things. (I'm a bit older than mrissa, I think.) Strength and patience to us all.