Tag: death

A Psalm of My Own

Post author By Susan T. Martin
Post date 08/01/2020

Written after Fighting With Myself All Night . Jehovah knows my suffering, hears my pleas each day . He knows the pain this madness brings, knows I’m made of clay . I thought I’d be forsaken, and all my hope was lost . […]

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Who Do I Think I Am?

Post author By Susan T. Martin
Post date 06/04/2020

I do silly things sometimes. Fairly often, in reality. Most of the time they are thoughtless mistakes, quickly forgotten by all who have been effected by them. There was a time, in the past life I lived, the one I talk so much about on this site, that I did intentionally bad things. Things that […]

Tags Anger, art, beauty, brothers, children, death, divisions, faith, freedom, friends, friendship, future, gratitude, healing, injustice, insanity, joy, learning, life, life lessons, love, memories, mothers, murder, peace, prayer, Race, racial tension, recovery, relationships, stress, truth, violence, work

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We Are Going To Make It

Post author By Susan T. Martin
Post date 03/23/2020

Is anyone out there as old as I am? I grew up to the Mary Tyler Moore show, on every week as I recall. When I was 10 or so, she was beautiful to me, not just as a pretty woman (which she was and is, if she is still alive, is she?…)but as a […]

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I’m Sorry

Post author By Susan T. Martin
Post date 12/30/2019

for all the things I forgot to tell you when you were here for being so impatient with you for wanting you to go to bed so I could have some time alone That was written not long after my Dad died. It seems to be that no matter how you try to care for […]

Tags Blankets, Bullets, death, God, grief, guilt, healing, life, love, Tears

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Back to Dirt (continued)

Post author By Susan T. Martin
Post date 11/07/2019

I get to this point, late at night, when my eyes burn from staring at my tiny detailed artwork. And this is the time I want to stop and write to you my musings on the day. So, here I am, bleary eyed and hurting, attempting to communicate something meaningful from my storehouse of wisdom….Perhaps […]

Tags chronic pain, death, drugs, God, insanity, love, writing

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the greasy fast-food-wrapper of death

Post author By Susan T. Martin
Post date 01/16/2019

"The Sentinel's Prayer", acrylic on canvas, Susan T. Martin2017

…he was the one man I adored, a happy glance…would gave made my life perfect…

Tags death, dementia, faith, fathers, grief, memories, mental illness

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Oh Happy Day!

Post author By Susan T. Martin
Post date 03/11/2018

I am happy to say, I was able to get back into my blogs here at WordPress, after a lengthy absence. I was unable to remember my sign in information for the longest time, but finally I was able to get back here!!! My sister blog, Out of the Gutter Art, has been languishing also, […]

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I Am Blown Away…

Post author By Susan T. Martin
Post date 06/14/2016

So much suffering in this world, that anything I may go through just pales by comparison. Just pales. A night out for friends at a club, a few drinks. A few laughs. Dancing. Happy, young, upwardly mobile. Beautiful. Did I tell you how beautiful they all are? Faces shown on smartphones, tv screens, computes. They […]

Tags children, chronic pain, codependency, coping skills, daughters, death, depression, freedom, God's Love, grief, healing, hope, Jehovah God, joy, life lessons, loss, love, memories, pain, peace, recovery, relationships, stress

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Grief and Bipolar Disorder

Post author By Susan T. Martin
Post date 03/10/2016

Let me start this blog off by saying that I am not a health care professional, nor am I licensed in any form of mental health capacity. All I am is a person in pain, having lost a dear loved one, and who also happens to suffer from Bipolar Disorder. So, in a sense, that […]

Tags Alzheimer's, Bipolar Disorder, chronic pain, codependency, coping skills, daughters, death, depression, dysfunctional families, God's Love, grief, hope, loss, love, recovery

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A ONE HANDED ENTRY

Post author By Susan T. Martin
Post date 09/14/2015

this is tough, this being me. i say all kinds of euphemistic things: endure, be brave, be faithful… a memory stirs, i am back to missing you. i am glad you are not suffering. i am glad the pain is gone. but here i am left, wondering. how do i carry on? my life is like […]

Tags Bipolar Disorder, cancer, chronic pain, codependency, daughters, death, depression, God's Love, healing, life, lonliness, loss, love, memories, mothers, moving on