Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Here is a list of pretty good TV shows of the 50s and early 1960s too. The only one I don't remember is "The Alaskans"
if you have ever heard a person keening it is not something you will EVER forget!
I have only really experienced this once with my present wife when her mother died and it was uncontrollable where she collapsed inside her closet and closed the door and keened.
It is sort of like hearing wolves howl and it is extremely deep and primal and I wondered if I was going to lose my wife and have to raise our 2 1/2 year old daughter alone like I had raised my son alone after he was 3 years old already.
But, luckily we got a Grief Therapist (which we still see periodically) but after a while he was more for fine tuning our marriage more than anything else after the initial grief wears off with 2 to 5 years for most people.
So, if people don't go insane from Grief then there is hope for them.
When something serious happens you can get physically ill or you can go crazy (temporarily or permanently).
Luckily, my wife realized she still had to stay alive for her 2 1/2 year old daughter and for me and for herself.
So, in the end everything turned out okay for us in regard to my wife and her being a mother and a friend for life and all that.
So, don't take keening lightly. It's a very serious thing! and if it isn't handled properly you might lose that person either physically or mentally or emotionally. It's important to know this is a very primal thing keening. It is not cultural in any way. It is completely primal and hard to witness because you know you might lose this person when it happens.
So, a therapist might be really important when you see someone keening!
Good Luck with this!
If you have ever heard someone keening into a pillow or in their closet it is not something you will EVER forget!
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keening
/ˈkēniNG/
Keening is the act of loud, long, mournful wailing or crying, typically performed to lament someone's death.
Cultural Tradition
- Gaelic origins: Rooted in the traditional Celtic customs of Ireland and Scotland, where it is known in Irish Gaelic as caoineadh.
General and Literary Usage
- Sound description: Used broadly in literature and daily speech to describe any sharp, piercing, or high-pitched sound resembling a wail (such as a strong wind or a high engine RPM).
If you'd like, I can share more about the history of Irish funeral customs or give you examples of keening in literature.
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noun the act of a person who keens. a wailing lament for the dead; keen. Etymology Origin of keening First recorded in 1875–80;
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If you need a Grief Therapist be sure and get one. They can help you survive difficult times in life
I had lost my father in 1985 in August and in December I had traveled with my now ex-wife and two step kids and my son from my first marriage to India, Nepal, Thailand and Japn from December to April.
Thinking back now I likely could have used a grief therapist then too but I was younger and macho and thought I could deal with anything. On a physical level that was and is true but on an emotional and psychological level we all need help to navigate the big deaths in our lives like parents and siblings and dear friends.
So, in 1999 with my present wife I married in 1995 her mother died. So, even though I predicted her death as a precognitive intuitive because I saw her aura in Thanksgiving of 1998 and saw her aura thinning which is usually a prelude to death. It sort of looks like a Soap bubble that you blow with your kids just before it pops. The same is true with people dying often too where you can see their aura thin as they are dying usually within 6 months of when you see this.
So, like a fool I told my wife after we were alone that her mother was likely going to die within 6 months. My present wife got hysterical and starting beating her fists on my chest and told me never to talk to her or her mother about this. So, I went along with her request.
However, about 6 months later her mother died of small cell Lung Cancer at age 74 which is 4 years younger than I am now which is kind of difficult to process too.
The point is then my wife was keening in the closet when she closed the door so distraught and unprepared for this event.
I thought to myself (OH MY GOD) "Am I going to have to raise our 2 1/2 year old daughter by myself? Am I losing my wife and her mother?"
So, we got a grief therapist that I talked to on the phone today trying to deal with my son's health issues and trying to keep him alive. Luckily, his biological mother (my first wife) has stepped into the mix and is caring for him full time along with her 80 year old boyfriend. It seems to work for everyone because everyone is needed in this situation so it's just family helping family so it is working pretty good so far.
The point is: "If you need a Grief Therapist to go on with your life without self destructing either physically or mentally or emotionally then you should look for someone who has your similar belief system when you do this.
And I would recommend a psychologist rather than a psychiatrist simply because when you use meds in this situation often it just makes things worse not better in the long run too.
For example I use 5-htp which is part of the serotonin chain which lifts you out of a chemical change in your brain linked to clinical depression and I also have used extra strength B-Complex with calming herbs from Whole Foods to survive things like Deaths and divorces too.
Deaths and divorces are sort of like the same thing to me. Only with a physical death you often lose a member of your family or your friend.
However, with a divorce it's kind of like your whole family dies and so in some ways this is much worse than losing someone to death.
This is my experience with divorce personally and I have been divorced twice the first time in 1977 and 1978.
And the next was in 1994. So, divorce in many ways is much worse in its effects on everyone than losing a member of your family or a friend.
However, the worst death for me was my father in 1985 which I never got over until I almost died myself in 1998.
My mother's death was very hard but in an entirely different way because she was 90 years old when she passed whereas my father was only 69 and we thought he would live forever because he was so healthy.
So, if you need a grief therapist to stay sane and alive I would recommend getting a psychologist who shares your basic belief systems otheriwise it might not work to have someone who believes different things than you.
I studied to be a psychologist in the 1970s before my live in Girlfriend got pregnant by the way so I know something about psychological therapy by the way.
By God's Grace
sunny Today at 1pm here on the northern California Coast
Yesterday I actually got sunburned which seems like a miracle after the cloudy summer we have had that stretches it seems sometimes eternally. However, the blessing of it is that we don't have temperatures above about 80 degrees usually any time of the year.
However, my experience of the best year around place to live Temperature wise would likely be Santa Barbara of any place I have been on earth so far.
For example, I love Hawaii but don't really want to be on any of the Islands much from about June through August and September.
I can remember going to the Kona Side of the Big Island in 2015 and snorkeling and the water being 85 degrees in JANUARY? and it was so hot i had to get out of the water to cool down in January to let the cooler breezes cool me down.
That was pretty amazing to be traveling with two friends of mine to Kona side of the Big Island then. Also, he and she were playing a Gig (they are musicians) in Hilo so we drove over the highway through the mountains over to Hilo so they could do this then which was quite an experience too.
Here is more about Hawaii's (the big island's) Mountain sheep (which are a non-native species of wild sheep).
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