homesick for ourselves – the hidden grief of ageing
- Written by: Carol Lefevre, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
Anyone parenting young children will be familiar with the phrase “there’ll be tears before bedtime”. But in a quieter, more private way, the expression seems perfectly pitched to describe the largely hidden grief of ageing.
Not the sharp grief that follows a bereavement (though bereavements do accumulate with the years), but a...
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