Comments on: The Only Way Out is Through https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/ Musings on Mothering, Metamorphosis and More Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:28:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: LisaPullenKent https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comment-620 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:39:57 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716#comment-620 In reply to Tracy.

Tracy, I’m so honored. Thank you for reading and for responding. I’m the one who is blessed to have met you this weekend. There was a special connection from the start–we went in (late) together and sat together for a reason.

]]> By: Tracy https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comment-618 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:48:22 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716#comment-618 You are a truly gifted writer, Lisa. I am so glad I met you and will be looking forward to reading you more in the years ahead.

]]> By: LisaPullenKent https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comment-357 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:05:09 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716#comment-357 In reply to Jill.

Jill, thank you. I hope she’s proud of me–I can only aspire to be as positive and loving as she was. Your reflection is particularly meaningful to me, as I admire your writing so. And you put it so articulately: “the depth, cruelty, beauty and necessity of grief.” To know now the fullness of a loss this momentous, is to be changed. Thank you.

]]> By: Jill https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comment-351 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 03:06:27 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716#comment-351 Beautiful, Lisa. You have a gift with words – and this piece illuminates so eloquently the depth, cruelty, beauty, and necessity of grief. I didn’t know your mother-in-law, but I know from this piece how proud she was of you for all that you are. She sounds like one smart lady to me 🙂
xxoo.

]]> By: LisaPullenKent https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comment-321 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 09:21:38 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716#comment-321 In reply to jennifer.

Oh, Jennifer, thank you. Sharing our pain might be the only way we can get through this. Love to you and Trace.

]]> By: jennifer https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comment-319 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 06:34:47 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716#comment-319 thank you for articulating what i feel, remember and grieve. your words were comforting when nothing much can.

]]> By: LisaPullenKent https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comment-312 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:31:53 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716#comment-312 In reply to Sue Loy.

Aunt Sue, I am so grateful for you. Just like Sydney said, you look like MeMe, you smile like MeMe and you laugh like her, too! Mom loved you so. And I’m sorry your heart is heavy with grief, especially after losing Larry.

It is comforting to know they’re together now, with Grandpa, and watching over us all. Thank you for your loving words. We love you.

]]> By: Sue Loy https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comment-308 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:15:39 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716#comment-308 Lisa, Thank you so very much. This has brought me a lot of comfort. I loved my big sister with all by heart and like you and the rest of the family will miss her forever. My only comfort is that she is in heaven with my husband and mine and her Dad and that they are all together looking down on all of us and talking about what is going on in our lives and how proud they are of all of us. You are the best daughter-in-law that Linda could ever have had. Love you and your family.

]]> By: LisaPullenKent https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comment-307 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:28:37 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716#comment-307 In reply to Emily.

Thank you, Emily. It’s so true what you’ve said about the thorough feeling of loss. It’s very difficult to accept the finality. Thank you for your kind words.

]]> By: Emily https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comment-305 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:49:05 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716#comment-305 Lisa, this is such a beautiful tribute, it’s amazing. It’s such a lovely way to remember her; I hope writing it helped ease your grief. Parents are such a part of our lives that not having them around seems inconceivable and so difficult to describe that thorough feeling of loss. This is lovely and I’m sure your mother-in-law would have loved it.

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