Digested week: The world spins on as I cope with Mum’s loss
04-04-2025 13:45 via theguardian.com

Digested week: The world spins on as I cope with Mum’s loss

From US travel fears to wondering if Ringo deserves a biopic, it’s been an out-of-kilter week of existential musings and political absurditiesGrief is an unnerving companion. Continually nudging me off centre. Even though the world appears much as it did before my mum, Rosemary, died, everything feels slightly out of kilter. Not quite right. Not as I remembered it. Sometimes, I even have to double-check the chair is where I thought it was. The physical merges into the metaphysical. Most of
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