{"id":40775,"date":"2013-03-28T04:11:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T09:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=40775"},"modified":"2015-05-31T04:12:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T09:12:10","slug":"grief-is-a-new-emotion-to-observe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/grief-is-a-new-emotion-to-observe\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief is a new emotion to observe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=26373\">my oldest and dearest childhood friend Wally Smith had passed<\/a>. We had crushes on each other since elementary school. \u00a0We never dated but were the best of buds. \u00a0His\u00a0friendship outlasted all boyfriends and husbands. I did not expect this loss to make me feel that lighting has struck half of me away. I\u2019ve never felt that before. \u00a0I\u2019ve been widowed three times but each relationship was less than three years and all in my 20\u2032s \u2013 30\u2032s. Not enough time to get deeply enmeshed. But Wally I\u2019ve known since I was 7. \u00a0Grief is\u00a0a new emotion to observe. \u00a0Feeling I\u2019ve lost something is a new emotion to observe. \u00a0Today I will spend time going into my emotion and learn from it whatever it has to teach me. \u00a0\u201cThe cycle of grief has its own timetable.\u00a0Until that cycle is honored and completed we are moving along life\u2019s path\u00a0with an anchor down.\u201d &#8212; Ann Linnea, Deep Water Passage<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/grief-is-a-new-emotion-to-observe\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Grief is a new emotion to observe&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/grief-is-a-new-emotion-to-observe\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/grief-is-a-new-emotion-to-observe\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/grief-is-a-new-emotion-to-observe\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Grief%20is%20a%20new%20emotion%20to%20observe&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/grief-is-a-new-emotion-to-observe\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday that\u00a0my oldest and dearest childhood friend Wally Smith had passed. We had crushes on each other since elementary school. \u00a0We never dated but were the best of buds. \u00a0His\u00a0friendship outlasted all boyfriends and husbands. I did not expect this loss to make me feel that lighting has struck half of me away. 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