| I use my T.V. as my computer monitor with the occasional movie. However, after several recommendations, I decided to watch this T.V. Series and I'm so glad I did. Wow. Just wow! I'm in love with the writing, the cast, the entire family, Jack and Rebecca's love story, how it links the important role siblings play in our lives and mostly-Jack's character. There is so much to this series it is stunning. | |
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In its first season, this show has 10 million viewers already and that soothes my soul a lot because every episode takes you right into your heart. It's impossible to watch this show and not "feel." It says something beautiful to me that people are so taken with this show. This family.
People in their hearts. I'm pretty excited about that part because it shows life as a family - as a family actually exists...and then some! It touches on intact, adoption, step families and all the intricate pieces weaved through and how you really can have the most loving caring parents and your children still grow up with their own set of anxieties, fears and interesting ways of being. How the birth order has its own cause in development. How love and loss plays its part in our lives.
Life does change when children arrive and it is a process. This is us. This is life. This is all of it. I'm curious to find out how the loss of their father landed on their mother and all of the intricate parts that led up to their mother marrying their fathers best friend. It seems clear to me their mutual love for Jack played a role in their closeness and I suspect his best friend did what many best friends do when a widow is left with three teenagers on her own. He steps up. Not to replace their father but to be there. And let's talk about mothers for a minute because as the story continues to unfold we see some of the places Rebecca withholds some extremely important truths and the ripple effect of her decisions to do so. Holy intensity. This is not all that rare though. It is not rare that a mother keeps a child from knowing who their biological father is. That is not exclusive to interracial families/adoptions.
On a personal level, right from the start, I'm personally impacted by scene's like this. Love this doctor.
As he shares about his 5 children and his 11 grandchildren...he also shares....."But there's not a single day that goes by that I don't think of the child I lost, and I'm an old man now..."
"The sourest lemon that life has to offer and turned it into something resembling lemonade....."
On a personal level, right from the start, I'm personally impacted by scene's like this. Love this doctor.
As he shares about his 5 children and his 11 grandchildren...he also shares....."But there's not a single day that goes by that I don't think of the child I lost, and I'm an old man now..."
"The sourest lemon that life has to offer and turned it into something resembling lemonade....."
Jack and Rebecca had two healthy babies to attend to and the loss was still something that had a ripple effect and something that their third adopted son took on in a sense (as you watch the story play out)
That wasn't my story and I don't actually think of Donovan every single day but he does still exist for me. This month in particular and I wondered as I was watching this - if I was having such a hard time letting some things go this month "in particular," simply because it is this month. It's totally possible because when I remember this about my own story, I understand myself better. I find myself saying to myself "oh right! There is this thing that happens to you every year-in February!" This is a part of why I create this month as the month of love. Because when I give this part of my family-life story presence and create something with it...it doesn't take me down, it lifts me up instead.
In fact:
That wasn't my story and I don't actually think of Donovan every single day but he does still exist for me. This month in particular and I wondered as I was watching this - if I was having such a hard time letting some things go this month "in particular," simply because it is this month. It's totally possible because when I remember this about my own story, I understand myself better. I find myself saying to myself "oh right! There is this thing that happens to you every year-in February!" This is a part of why I create this month as the month of love. Because when I give this part of my family-life story presence and create something with it...it doesn't take me down, it lifts me up instead.
In fact:
Today, February 25, 2017 is the 22nd Anniversary of when I woke up to discover Donovan had taken his last breath already, in my arms.
Some of the episodes had me see how life could have moved differently if there were two other babies, or even if my sons father and I had a marriage built on a strong foundation of our married love being what led us. We didn't have that. There was love, as there is always love in any family but we did not have that.
Anyway....
This Is Us...I look forward to seeing the next two episodes next month and gosh ,what a beautiful way to close out the month of February...what a wonderful opportunity to feel... and to experience the love of family...All of it...
I think this show has a lot of healing power for families. Often when we are in it too closely - we can not see...through other stories...we are able to see or feel something that is meant for us to see or feel and sometimes that is enough to bring us back into our family love and/or to heal what needs to be healed. Or even just to see the broader story when we can't.
Stay tuned
Anyway....
This Is Us...I look forward to seeing the next two episodes next month and gosh ,what a beautiful way to close out the month of February...what a wonderful opportunity to feel... and to experience the love of family...All of it...
I think this show has a lot of healing power for families. Often when we are in it too closely - we can not see...through other stories...we are able to see or feel something that is meant for us to see or feel and sometimes that is enough to bring us back into our family love and/or to heal what needs to be healed. Or even just to see the broader story when we can't.
Stay tuned
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