Grief
Song & Rants #19 | Hope & Loss w/ Coldplay cover “Let Somebody Go”
A little chat with my son (Sylas Boesten) about lessons learned from losing his mama (Ingrid Boesten) to cancer and how to hold hope and loss in the same hand. I also share a story about one of the most beautiful things Ingrid did a couple of months before she died.
At Sylas’s suggestion, I did a cover of the Coldplay song “Let Somebody Go” on the Fender Rhodes. This is a dedication post on the anniversary of Ingrid’s death (Dec. 7, 1972 – May 16, 2014).
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” – Louise Erdrich
Song & Rants #8 | Gifts of Grief w/ Joshua Smith & tune “Waiting on the Day”
Have you ever lost something or someone and wondered if you’d ever be able to work through it? How does this work? What is the gift of grief?
These are some of the questions I (Nico Boesten) ask Joshua Smith, a local (Kelowna, BC) singer songwriter and friend who just released an album written about his dad who passed last year. We play a live version of “Waiting on the Day” at the end.
To hear more of Joshua Smith’s music including his latest single: http://joshuasmithsongs.com
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