Seven Years, Seven Pounds and Assisted Suicide
The New York Times reports that recovery is not around the corner. The Federal Reserve said today that it was likely to raise interest rates at the end of 2014, which adds 18 months to the longest-running response to the financial crisis of 2008. By holding short-term rates near zero beyond mid-2013, its previous estimate, the Fed hopes to hasten that process somewhat by reducing the cost of borrowing.
The recovery here, at Owl Farm, on the other hand is reaching the Seven-year-mark. As I create a strategy to turn Owl Farm into a place for people to visit and share in the magnificent natural beauty of Owl Farm's Red Cliffs and Hunter's work space, the the grueling task of letting go and forgiving is an ongoing process. A coincidence of supermarket DVD left me happily inspired to forgive.
For you, who deal with issues of having been blindsided by the suicide of a loved one, I recommend a movie: Seven Pounds. I bought the DVD at the grocery store for no other reason than a long line by a discount movie bin (well, there was the issue of the alluring face of Will Smith). The DVD cover reveals nothing of the content. I've watched it several times in the last few weeks and have recommended to those who were crushed by Hunter's suicide. The character Dan Morris, played by Barry Pepper has helped me enormously to understand why anyone would assist a suicide of a loved one -- something that has pushed some of us in the gonzo family to bitterness and unforgiveingness, if that's a word. I'm not cured yet, and forgiveness is not complete yet, but I can't praise Barry Pepper enough for helping us understand the mind of a the person who would assist a suicide of a loved one. Director Gabriele Muccino, the exquisite Rosario Dawson, Will Smith, and writer Grant Nieporte are amazing.. Thank you so much guys: You can't imagine how much this helps us in what has been a relentless Odyssey.
Apparently the movie was released the same year the financial crisis hit wall street, echoing down the economic line (2008, three years after Hunter died). And now as year 7 approaches, and it's time to forgive and let go, so the movie was a welcome surprise. Thank you again Muccino et al.
your friend counting and letting go of the years.
love,
Anita Thompson
