Not as in the ship or the island or the whiskey - as in Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy. SARK!
When Mom needed a bit of a lift, artwork of SARK's sayings & drawings boosted her spirits. They certainly transformed some seriously drab hospital rooms into high energy points & boosted really nice rooms into spiritually uplifting centers of zoom that beckoned staff to drop by.
For literally decades, I've been a mega fan of SARK's creativity, but she managed to totally take my breath away with Glad No Matter What, a book I first was aware of back in 2010, when it was published.
Doubt I would have believed that a book dealing with the loss of her mother (after a long illness), the death of her cat & the end of a relationship would reach out to comfort my grief at the passing of a special soul.
Wasn't meant to find it until just now, when I am celebrating & grieving the life of a wise man & gentle spirit, someone whose courageous caring turned my topsy turvy life around.
Can sense Roger finding this gem just in time to help celebrate all he is.
Discovering Glad No Matter What leaves me weepish with gratitude for the impeccable timing of a generous Universe. The joy of discovering it at this moment leaves me in grateful awe.
Can feel Roger within this tender gem:
If we do not allow ourselves to feel or express our emotions, they will get larger or louder or may go into our bodies and present themselves as some kind of medical condition. Feelings are meant to be in motion. E-Motion. Feelings are made to be expressed.
Someone wrote that SARK helps us see our part in our own life, see & put it back in place to "work out for ourselves, to come out even better than if we were just to have endured the experience." Yep, sounds like Roger.
So many aspects of this remarkable book make me think of my friend, sounds like something he's said, or just puts me in mind of his unique spirit & remarkable presence. The person who wrote, "I always look forward to opening her books to any page and feeling a slice of her perspective. Witty, smart, truly sensitive and such a valuable enlightening tool," could have been describing my experiences with Roger!
It has been difficult, losing Roger. He was an essential part of my life, but we were not close in the way he was with so many others. We always shared greetings & farewells when I was at the local cafe where he was the most regular of all regulars - literally helping open the place each morning - but I was never part of the cadre that gathered with him at the big table in the front of the cafe. My special moments with Roger happened forty years ago, in the small cozy apartment of two dear friends, whose beaux were his special compadres.
His wide circle of friends will have a boundless storehouse of Roger memories to tap into with each other. That was beginning to feel a little wistful to me. I didn't feel left out, but felt - something. Then into my lap & out of the blue plopped Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity.
My heart smiled, my spirit soothed and I was left without any shadow of doubt that Roger Lansbury was at it again!
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