Comments on: The Burden of Perspicacity https://anastamos.chapman.edu/index.php/portfolio-item/the-burden-of-perspicacity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-burden-of-perspicacity The Graduate Literary Journal of Chapman University Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.7 By: Marsha McGregor https://anastamos.chapman.edu/index.php/portfolio-item/the-burden-of-perspicacity/#comment-75858 Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:21:10 +0000 https://anastamos.chapman.edu/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2314#comment-75858 This is profoundly moving and exquisitely written. Thank you.

]]> By: Eileen Collins https://anastamos.chapman.edu/index.php/portfolio-item/the-burden-of-perspicacity/#comment-65874 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 13:29:23 +0000 https://anastamos.chapman.edu/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2314#comment-65874 Thank you, Elaine, for reading my story and for your kind words. I am so very sorry for your loss. Yes, we are irrevocably changed

]]> By: Elaine https://anastamos.chapman.edu/index.php/portfolio-item/the-burden-of-perspicacity/#comment-56792 Sat, 20 Jun 2020 22:22:34 +0000 https://anastamos.chapman.edu/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2314#comment-56792 This made me cry for the daughter we lost at 20 weeks gestation… Helen would have been 29 tomorrow had she lived. I’m so glad for you, Eileen, that you got to hear your daughter’s voice, see her laugh, cry… I don’t know that I’ll ever fully come to terms with our loss. I console myself with the thought that perhaps we wouldn’t have had our lovely son had things been different. Odd times I’m filled with an overwhelming terror that something might happen to him too, and I’ll be powerless to stop it. We’re irrevocably changed, aren’t we? Much love to you. X

]]> By: Patrick Swann https://anastamos.chapman.edu/index.php/portfolio-item/the-burden-of-perspicacity/#comment-27470 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:21:52 +0000 https://anastamos.chapman.edu/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2314#comment-27470 Eileen, it’s good.

]]> By: A. Stephens https://anastamos.chapman.edu/index.php/portfolio-item/the-burden-of-perspicacity/#comment-7228 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 21:50:43 +0000 https://anastamos.chapman.edu/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2314#comment-7228 Eileen and I unfortunately met through a loss of child by suicide group, then also in real life… I am just astounded by her ability to put in writing things I cannot. Every time I read this piece, I am amazed at her gift to express what a lot of us can’t.

]]> By: Helen Dixon https://anastamos.chapman.edu/index.php/portfolio-item/the-burden-of-perspicacity/#comment-3323 Tue, 02 Jul 2019 22:04:19 +0000 https://anastamos.chapman.edu/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2314#comment-3323 Eileen has been my friend for 45 years. She is as brillant as her prose. Eileen wrote letters to me while I was living in Africa mostly about Lydia and Daniel. These letters were my mainstay and kept the memories of home fresh in my mind.

]]> By: Ed N. White https://anastamos.chapman.edu/index.php/portfolio-item/the-burden-of-perspicacity/#comment-3062 Tue, 28 May 2019 00:56:41 +0000 https://anastamos.chapman.edu/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2314#comment-3062 This story tears at my heart. It is inconceivable to me the trauma that any parent will suffer following the death of a child. Ms. Collins expresses her suffering in beautiful prose that bares her soul, as she keeps asking herself, “Why?” To be able to write this piece so many years after the death shows there will never be an answer, only more questions.

I look forward to reading more from Ms. Collins, hopefully, in this publication.

Ed N. White

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