Been There Voices - Anita Perez Ferguson - How do you manage prolonged exposure to grief?

After teaching my weekly class at the Ventura Post Acute Care Center I wrote:

Your pain and sickness

Distress my spirit.

Seeing you erases

The smile I washed and ironed Especially for our visit.

How do you manage

Prolonged exposure to grief?

I cannot store up enough cheer to last the journey.

** Anita Perez Ferguson, Santa Barbara, CA, young adult historic fiction author

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The reasons are arbitrary and not intended to dismiss half of our population, however, this project focuses on the stories of women, and begins with fourteen women, well-polished grains of sand on the beach of life, tumbled by the waves of time until their light shines through, offering their stories, joys and sorrows, to the ocean of wisdom.