Cat Mama World: The Grief Episode

It’s been quite a while since you’ve been in Cat Mama World and a lot has happened in these last few months. On May 1st, I lost my father and since have been working through what it means to accept loss when there is so much that is left unsaid.

• What do we do when we aren’t given the space to say goodbye?

• What happens when we feel anger instead of pain because we feel cheated by the death?

• How do you grieve the loss of a person that had a complicated presence (or non-presence) in your life?

This episode is for all the kittens raised by their grandmothers, kittens raised by single mothers, raised by their aunties and uncles, by their communities. This episode is for the kittens with biological parents that abandoned them and never gave them a chance to understand why. This episode is for all the kittens who grieve the loss of ghosts. We exist and the pain we feel is real, and however you choose to grieve, is valid.

RIP Pierre Damiba, I still don’t know what to make of your passing, but I’m thankful you gave me life.

I kind of ramble in this episode, I play a soundscape I made, then we have a long musical interlude followed by more rambling because sometimes we really just need to vent it out.

Love you.