STARRY NIGHT

STARRY NIGHT
September 24, 2010


Today I went online seeking something that would touch my heart and help ease me through this depression that I now find myself in. First I went to famous quotes or poems on the loss of a child and found nothing there that connected with the distinct feelings I was having right now. Most grief writings do not address the unique feelings a mother or father experience on a death by suicide.

After much searching I found these three quotes that seem to address my immediate needs and touched both my intellect and my heart:

"It has been said 'time heals all wounds'. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and pain lessens. But it is never gone. --Rose Kennedy--

"Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy." ---Author Unknown---










This last quote is from "Raisin in the Sun" a novel written by Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965). She was the first African American woman to have a play on Broadway. After this success, Ms. Hansberry wrote several other works, but died of cancer at age 34. The play "To be Young, Gifted, and Black" is based on her life.

"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then you ain't through learning --- because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to whatever he is."


How absolutely perfect is that? Bless you Lorraine Hansberry.