Writing about grief, hope, music, memory and community.
About us, about home
Grief, guilt and the long road through suicide loss
Support, community and the people who stay
When you lose the people who were there, you lose something specific: the corroboration. The confirmation that it happened, that it was real, that you are not constructing a world out of nothing.
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They say the Welsh have a word for a kind of longing that doesn't quite exist anywhere else: hiraeth. It rolls off the tongue like the wind coming down from the hills, a little soft at the start, lingering at the end.
