Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourkeis an American nonfiction writer, poet and critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
cancer christmas clock death died exact mother none stopped three time
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.
mother believe hands
I was not raised with religion, and I had no faith before my mother died. On the other hand, when she died, I did not immediately feel she was "gone." I don't believe she is in something like heaven, but I also feel that we don't understand much about the nature of the universe. So I hold on to that uncertainty, at times.
mother loss knowing
Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.
mother
Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.
mother brother fall
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
mother world portal
A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.
mother cancer breathing
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.
mother struggle loss
And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
mother notion
A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
mother believe gone
But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
mother holiday fake
My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.
mother thinking sick
When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.
mother world needs
The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
mother stories
A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.