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244 reviews for:
What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter
Hallie Bateman, Suzy Hopkins
4.17 AVERAGE
244 reviews for:
What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter
Hallie Bateman, Suzy Hopkins
4.17 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
I was worried that this would be made-for-tv-movie/lurlene mcdaniel tear-jerking. But it was kind of refreshingly practical in a way that reminded me of my own (still-living) mother. We will all die. It will be sad. Life will continue. Hard things will happen. Life will continue. Make some brownies. Read a beautiful book. (Loved the artwork very much.)
A beautiful, emotional read. Short - but worth the time to really savor.
Day 365: Make chicken and dumplings
A year has gone by and you may still be feeling a lot of pain. If I could do one thing from the grave, it would be to help ease your sense of loss.
What we carry of other people, even when they're alive, is simply our perception of them, an idea. That means I'm here as long as you remember me. And since I'm here, I suggest you get busy living, seeking out happiness, moving forward.
Let yourself feel how you feel. Then, realize that the sun is out, the dog needs to be walked, that huge pile of laundry could use some attention, and your neighbor might welcome some comfort food. It's true, I'm not there in person, but changes are you know exactly what I would say: make chicken and dumplings.
Day 550: Make a decision (p 60)
- Get a legal pad, ruler, pencil
- Draw a line down the middle of the pad
- Draw another line across the top 10 percent of the page
- Left is pro, right is con
- Beneath, list outcomes: best-case scenario, worst-case scenario
- If the best case is better than the worst case, do it
Day 8000: Redefine happiness
I used to think happiness was something I would get to at some point, that one day everything would fall into place and stay there.
I see happiness as contentment with what you're doing right now. That may be nothing at all, or something ambitious, or something in between. It's a sense of not wanting to be anywhere else. (p 107)
Duck-It List
(things to avoid until you die)
- bucket lists
- working with or for mean people
- self-loathing
- being wishy-washy
- being afraid to say something honest
- being purposefully unkind
- relationships that are full of conflict
- friends who drain your life force
- "should"
A year has gone by and you may still be feeling a lot of pain. If I could do one thing from the grave, it would be to help ease your sense of loss.
What we carry of other people, even when they're alive, is simply our perception of them, an idea. That means I'm here as long as you remember me. And since I'm here, I suggest you get busy living, seeking out happiness, moving forward.
Let yourself feel how you feel. Then, realize that the sun is out, the dog needs to be walked, that huge pile of laundry could use some attention, and your neighbor might welcome some comfort food. It's true, I'm not there in person, but changes are you know exactly what I would say: make chicken and dumplings.
Day 550: Make a decision (p 60)
- Get a legal pad, ruler, pencil
- Draw a line down the middle of the pad
- Draw another line across the top 10 percent of the page
- Left is pro, right is con
- Beneath, list outcomes: best-case scenario, worst-case scenario
- If the best case is better than the worst case, do it
Day 8000: Redefine happiness
I used to think happiness was something I would get to at some point, that one day everything would fall into place and stay there.
I see happiness as contentment with what you're doing right now. That may be nothing at all, or something ambitious, or something in between. It's a sense of not wanting to be anywhere else. (p 107)
Duck-It List
(things to avoid until you die)
- bucket lists
- working with or for mean people
- self-loathing
- being wishy-washy
- being afraid to say something honest
- being purposefully unkind
- relationships that are full of conflict
- friends who drain your life force
- "should"
Expected more. I guess its a personal preference though, I would not have recognised my own mom in this.
hopeful
sad
Today is my second Mother's day without my mom. Bawled my eyes out reading this book.
this was great but also made me acutely aware of the fact that i won't know what to do when my mom dies
