Even After That

By Judith de Wilde

Losing a loved one is a painful, life changing experience. No one can really know how you feel. Even After That travels through the grief over the death of a loved one to the path of healing and recovery. The collection of easily read and understood poems deals with everyday events and the feelings a survivor may encounter. The book is illustrated with photographs inspired by the content of the poems.
In the words of the recently widowed author, For those of you who have been torn apart from your life partner, for those of you who have not, I open my heart to share with you the tapestry of loving and losing to perhaps make it easier for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 13, 2010
• ISBN: 9781504956215

Judith de Wilde

Previously published as a children’s author, with this book the writer breaks into a new genre. Her works for children were begun while obtaining her Masters Degree in Education from The College of New Jersey. In this same time period she wrote and developed the curriculum for the pre-first class in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This became the model for classes across the state. Until now her writing for the adult audience has consisted of magazine articles dealing with a variety of topics. The past eight years found the author filling a new role, caregiver for her husband of fifty years following a catastrophic stroke. Upon his death, searching for comfort, she found solace in writing through her grief. The result is a collection of free form poems dealing with the steps of grieving and finding the road to recovery. Now living in a small town in Southern New Jersey she couples her writing with her hobby of photography.

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/12/2015

ISBN: 978-1-4520-2231-4 (sc)

           978-1-5049-5621-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010912613

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THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN IN TRIBUTE TO

BOB

MY HUSBAND AND PARTNER

OF FIFTY YEARS

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Contents

Prologue

Just Keeping the Vows

Fifty Years

Unanswered Questions

His Leaving

Changing Partners

Tears on My Face

Reasons for Living

The Empty Bed

Rooted in My Grief

The Box

Depths of Grief

Moments at the Table

The Special Few

Still Lost

Night Returns

Prayers at Work

Creativity from Grief

Emotional Bullets

Quality of Life

The Unknowns

Forms and Questions

Prayers Replace Tears

Sadness Denied

Shadows of Our Life

Couples

366 Days

The Shadow of Grief

Happiness by Catalog

How Can Spring Come?

It’s Not Better this Way

Wishes

Teatime

He Died Again Today

The First Spring

Heavenly Questions

Uncertain Again

Memories Creating Comfort

My Bleeding Heart

The Grandfather Clock

Rejecting Closure