Comments on: I have had worse partings, but none that so Gnaws at my mind still https://joind.co.uk/i-have-had-worse-partings-but-none-that-so-gnaws-at-my-mind-still/ Writer, digital media producer, learning designer Sat, 11 Feb 2017 19:57:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Jo Ind https://joind.co.uk/i-have-had-worse-partings-but-none-that-so-gnaws-at-my-mind-still/#comment-190 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:00:10 +0000 http://joind.co.uk/?p=920#comment-190 Ouch Huw! There is indeed something similar in it. I can feel it from here. It’s the not being able to explain why that’s the thing. The sadness we feel when things aren’t right is one thing. The sadness we feel when things ARE is another.

]]> By: Huw https://joind.co.uk/i-have-had-worse-partings-but-none-that-so-gnaws-at-my-mind-still/#comment-189 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:39:36 +0000 http://joind.co.uk/?p=920#comment-189 That is beautiful, Jo – both your post and the poem, which I had never heard of before.

My most poignant memory of my son is not of a parting or a putting-away, but there is something similar in it. He was four years old, and on a campsite I overheard him asking a little girl he had befriended whether she would like to come and see his security blanket. I found it quite heart-breaking, without quite being able to explain why.

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