Question:“On being widowed”
On being widowed
When the person you lived with is gone, it is not half the house that is empty but half the day. That half is not to be filled. It is to be learned.
Do one household task today that used to be theirs, with your own hands. Do it clumsily if you must. While your hands learn the task, they are beside you.
In the underworld Odysseus reached three times to embrace his mother, and three times his arms closed on nothing. Still she told him all the news of home.