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アンダーソン*クーパー

This is All There Is (んー、訳したら、”これしか残らない?””人生之しかないんだよ”、とか?)のポッドキャストを聴き入っている。彼は55才にして最愛の母親、グロリア・ヴァンダービルトを失くし悲しみにくれていた。永遠的喪中とはいえさすが月日が経ちずっとほっておくわけにもいかず、母のマンションを売却検討中1人地下室で母親の遺品整理に取り掛かる。それは70箱にその他もろもろの始末…母から残された膨大なタスクを前に途方に暮れる。遺品は母が残した物のみではなく、彼が10才の頃亡くした父親が残したであろう書類含めたあらゆる物、彼が大学生の頃に自殺した23才だった兄のもろもろも母の物と一緒に遺品3人分皆含まれている。人生最大の断捨離を託されてしまたクーパー、遺品を発見しては思い出にふけり、残されたメッセージに留まりながら泣き泣き彼は追い詰められていく。

亡き母親が生前自分では処分できなかった大量の私物に圧倒されるクーパー氏なのだ。物理的だけの圧倒ではなく、精神的に追い込まれる。最初は目的もなく、ただただ孤独から逃れるためにも、悲しみを共有するためにもこのポッドキャストをクリエイトしていくことで自分も癒され、自分も救われる事に気ずく。彼の泣き声が伝わりぐっとくる。

Griefがただ悲しみと日本語で訳されるとは調子ぬけする。エピソード5、Anticipatory Grief に共感する。

Been listening to Anderson Cooper’s podcast “All There Is with Anderson Cooper”. I only have one parent left, having lost my father 33 years ago. My mother is in her 90’s and still alive. I have been in “Anticipatory Grief” for 5 years or so. That is the epiphany. “Anticipatory Grief” is what we struggle with when you have a parent(s) who suffer from a dimentia. I am grieving. In honor of her, I am grieving. Already. In preparation. Sometimes though a “switch” would turn on and she is everything she ever was. As a family, we juggle the times she’s “normal” and times, when she’s lost or in another time and place and in whatever state she she finds herself, we must accept her the way she is…missing the person she used to be, in preparation for what? relief or grief to come.

Thank you for sharing.

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

― Rumi

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Birthday in Tokyo

TREATS! Celebrating duel March birthdays – Chirashi sushi so beautiful – Wajima laquer bowl so beautiful …Friendship so appreciated – Gochisousama:)

Signs of being very stressed – tightened jaws, stiff shoulders, tight hips, shallow breathing, insomnia, odd pain at lower back … waking up in the morning already tired… still … employing all my knowledge from yoga therapeutics towards self-care to put on a happy face. To carry on.

With intentions to make my mother’s sunset time of life, hopefully a better one has given me a renewed sense of purpose. And at all times, what’s most effective in combatting this overwhelming energy drain for a reboot is through … Gratitude … Challenging times made a bit less painful, thanks to family and friends – forever grateful. Glad to be able to reciprocate those I owe so much gratitude to, one at a time, sharing. I would not have made it without going insane or seriously sick without your support. Arigato!!

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Gratitude in Roppongi

What you need are friends to celebrate with  Arigato!