New life program for grief full#

In this strange lightness of spirit that possessed him, my father turned to the writing of comic short stories.

New life program for grief full#

It was as though the heart illness, officially recognized by doctors and the newspaper, gave full expression and an extra validity to the unhappiness he had felt for years, with the Guardian, with my mother’s family, with his poverty, with prejudice and the British Empire and the unhappy state of India, and with many other things and it was no longer necessary now for him to go over any of the points. But my father, now near the end of things, was possessed by a strange lightness of spirit. I was in school in England when this happened, and I worried about the effect of this half pay on my family things had been bad enough on my father’s full pay. This trouble with his heart was surprising, since for all the years we had known him as children his trouble was his stomach and his indigestion, requiring bottles and bottles of a particular brand of medicinal stomach powder, which he never had the foresight to buy when he was all right, preferring instead during a crisis to send his children on the long walk to the local pharmacy for the powder.Ī couple of years after this heart trouble, my father was put on half pay by the Trinidad Guardian, the newspaper for which he worked. My father was forty-five or forty-six when he had a heart attack. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.