Look Mom, I Can Fly

 Notes from the Wide Skies of Grieving My Only Child

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This site is a gathering place for my books, art, and reflections — a weaving of story, color, poetry, and the tender work of navigating grief.  My hope is that what you find here offers both comfort and inspiration, reminding you that creativity can carry us through what feels unbearable.

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Look Mom, I Can Fly

A luminous memoir told through poems, mandalas, and letters, chronicling the raw, creative, and tender journey of grief.

How does a mother survive the death of her only child?

When Luna Jaffe’s son, Hunter, died suddenly at twenty-one, her world split open. Nothing could prepare her for the tidal wave of grief that followed, nor for the silence it imposed. In the wreckage, she reached for what had always guided her — art, language, ritual. On Hunter’s grave, she laid mandalas made of flowers and feathers. In the studio, she painted watercolors steeped in sorrow. In the quiet hours, she wrote letters, poems, and prayers, each one a thread across the abyss.

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There is something so profoundly moving about a grave as an altar… an altar which you alter often.. and which alters you.”

- Melody LeBaron