Comments on: Hope, Despair, and Everything in Between

By: Frank Leeding

Frank Leeding — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:05:09 +0000

But, then (when all is (supposedly) said and done…

there is always still hope.., (big sigh here)..

but (as an artist), i always sey - you can not know when art might just heppen -boom! out of the box -things do happen; and of course we (as humans are wont to do) we focus on all the things that can (and more than likely will) go wrong.

but, if we have the courage, and the will - just to get up and “go on” ,, like “Didi” and “Gogo” in Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” - as long (another big sigh here) we get up and “”go on”" - as artists, we “pick up the brush” ONCE again and go on - but, always with hope. translate to your own venue,

frank.

(hope-always-hope-and-with-art-as-our guide)

By: babs m

babs m — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:27:15 +0000

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:25:53 +0000

Casdok beat me to it, but I won’t fret too much.

There is always Hope!

By: Casdok

Casdok — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:54:41 +0000

You are so right, emotions do go up and down over the years. But underneath it all i am always hopeful.

By: Marla

Marla — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:48:53 +0000

We go up and down and around and around with emotions. My husband just looked at me a minute before I came to this post and said, “I feel so hopeless with M’s seizures right now.” Yup, we are in that zone right now. Feeling like our daughter can’t catch a break. It will pass though.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:32:15 +0000

I think we’ve been having a very similar week (topped off by a behavior on top of a bruise this morning, with a fast recovery to being calm)—-and long bike ride. Sometimes I feel as if I’m going through every possible emotion all the time in one short hour.

By: VAB

VAB — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:26:00 +0000

Good post. It’s a tough thing, but as you say, it’s part of the package. I agree that we have to roll with the emotions, but at the same time, I know that not all of them are useful in large does (once you’ve clocked up a certain number of hours of worry and despair, spending more time on that group of emotions may have diminishing returns).

When I was going through a bad time last year with our guy’s school and looking for a new place, I had so much worry, and really awful fears for the future. I didn’t sleep much for several months. It was really useful to get myself out doing things that had nothing to do with parenting. In particular, I went skiing, but anything engrossing would have done as well. I like to think I did a better job of navigating the educational system because of it, but I don’t know whether that is true. What I do know is that the outcome was no worse for me having forced myself into activities that took some of the worry off of my mind for a while.