I am not a believer. I am an atheist. Without a religious allegiance or a belief in a god or an afterlife, you would think I would be free from all other superstitions. In fact, I inherited much of my magical thinking from my mother. She, too, disdained religion, but lord she had a world […]
Superstitious
Magical thinking, isn’t that the phrase Joan Didion used to describe how we deal with the death of a loved one. It was how Joan Didion described the year in her life after a tragic loss. I used the expression to suggest a superstitious view.
My year, now approaching two, after Burt’s death has not been one spent in anything magical although I have been doing a lot of thinking. And remembering.
this is our life 