Housebound recommendations?
Oct. 28th, 2021 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quilityHello friends,
A friend of a friend of mine, who just turned 40, has worsening health and looks like she might have to be housebound for the rest of her life. It sounds like they are doing a great job being supportive of her, but she is understandably struggling with sadness during this adjustment. While this is an understandable and healthy response, I want to give her resources to try to help adjust the stories in her head about not being able to go out to something more positive if possible.
I am looking for recommendations for stories about people who were happy living (almost) entirely inside. Ideally these would be real life biographies or auto-biographies, but I image that fiction could also be helpful.
She is also in a fair amount of pain some of the time.
"The Sessions" and the ending of "Minority Report" are the only things that are currently coming to mind.
I know next to nothing about Emily Dickinson... was she happy in her staying home?
Thank you for any recommendations!
A friend of a friend of mine, who just turned 40, has worsening health and looks like she might have to be housebound for the rest of her life. It sounds like they are doing a great job being supportive of her, but she is understandably struggling with sadness during this adjustment. While this is an understandable and healthy response, I want to give her resources to try to help adjust the stories in her head about not being able to go out to something more positive if possible.
I am looking for recommendations for stories about people who were happy living (almost) entirely inside. Ideally these would be real life biographies or auto-biographies, but I image that fiction could also be helpful.
She is also in a fair amount of pain some of the time.
"The Sessions" and the ending of "Minority Report" are the only things that are currently coming to mind.
I know next to nothing about Emily Dickinson... was she happy in her staying home?
Thank you for any recommendations!
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Date: 2021-10-28 10:42 pm (UTC)During the time she was mostly staying home and writing and rewriting poems, she also carried on a huge correspondence; and was reportedly always willing to talk to the neighborhood children, whom she is said to have greeted with gingerbread and other goodies.
If your friend does have any creative leanings, Emily Dickinson's story might be interesting and comforting, but you know more about your friend than I do.
It's hard to get firm information, since she asked her sister Lavinia to burn her papers. Lavinia missed some letters, and also decided, mercifully, that the poems didn't count as papers to be burned. But information is spotty and often comes from third parties.
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Date: 2021-10-29 02:55 am (UTC)She’s a friend of a friend so I’m not sure about creative leanings, but I will pass the idea along with that caveat. Much appreciated!