I’d read for a while, then I’d wrap up a dish or clean off
another shelf. My current book was so
well written that when I started reading, I’d find myself crying crocodile
tears that wouldn’t stop. Living and
dying were written about so carefully, so beautifully, that my shirt sleeves
were wet from my tears. Even taking
another set of dishes off a shelf to give away found me with now dry and gritty
eyes.
Perhaps it’s a side effect of my stroke, I would say to
myself. It often is….one eye cries for
no reason when the other doesn’t.
Not yesterday. I
found myself wrapped up in a generational anger that was placed in a beautiful
setting. Bees buzzed around my
ears. Even the ruts in the driveway were
magically peopled with snapping turtles that made me smile just before another
rush of tears.
Sometimes books affect me that way.
Life is Really in the
Footnotes:
The time transition seems to be harder a we age and less than optimum health as well. Its just takes us more time. I've found myself crying more easier at 71 than I did at 61. Maybe its having a heart and larger experience.
ReplyDeleteWe do cry more easily as we get older. Sometimes I think it's because we are less likely to be caught at it. (My mother used to laugh at me whenever I cried for anything other than pain.) I definitely think tears are closer to the surface when we don't feel well.
ReplyDeleteAren't you going to tell us what was the book that is so well written?
You can't write Timesworthy review and not share the title.
ReplyDeleteYou're not reading anything! That's a first. :)
ReplyDeleteLooking at your shelf - I haven't read any of those, though that's not unusual because I don't read a book a week or a book a day as some people do.
Right now, I'm reading "The Signature of All Things" by Elizabeth Gilbert, the "Eat, Pray, Love" lady.
Only about 20% into it, but so far, I'm enjoying it.
(I liked hearing from you on my last post and your feelings on the subject...I always do.)
Oops, yes I have read "of Mice and Men." I think we all had to read that in school. And my kids have probably read the "Ramona" book.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, what was the name of he well written book, and what made the bees swarm around your head?
ReplyDeleteDianne
Still struggling with Bosnia...400+ pages of it. I was hoping it would be more about the history...but it is mostly about foreign attaches and their struggle in primitive cultures. I think we cry more easily because we can see the big picture better as we age.
ReplyDeleteYes, at times the tears come. Maybe in part it's because what we read or experience triggers memories of our own losses and those losses inevitably become greater as we get older? I find a kind of catharsis in the tears a good book causes.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about this post last night. I too burst into tears for the slightest reason. Sometimes it is embarrassing. It started when I had the stroke. However, I was 62 and put it down to aging.
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Dianne
I've just finished writing all my posts about our trip to Illinois. A stroke? What? I've got a lot of catching up to do. I haven't read a sad book of late. I cry very easily.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the book? You peaked my interest big time...
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