The blues; few reasons to smile; heavy grief.

[troebia]

I then got out photos of the people that i was going through the grieving process for.

My wife has photos on the wall of all our deceased dogs. I've told her it hurts my heart to have them so visible, but for her it's a comfort to have the memories of them always present.

[Mental Fairy]

Any pet I’ve ever lost has never been on my walls. For some reason I can’t face that loss well at all. I don’t have photos on my walls at home. I put them back into a drawer and move on. Pets are so much harder for me. That sounds horrible I know.

[oak]

Friends!

I still have all the conditions that made me sad and blue and lonely.

Posting here has helped, as has moving at HIIT.

A friend of a friend has turned me on, at age 47, to the Grateful Dead.

I just learned that much of their oeuvre is based on the blues.

https://youtu.be/U6EyMJJdW40

Besides being a beautiful song,”Trouble In Mind” has such a hopeful message: I have trouble in mind, but I won’t be blue always.

Our dear brother Jerry Garcia understood.

Said another way: once again, as always, art pulls me up when my psyche is wounded and my soul is raw. We are human, and have hearts.