Author Cleo Childs Discusses “Moving With” Alzheimer’s
Cleo Childs chatted with Digital Journal about her debut spoken word project “Moving With,” and the inspiration behind it.
Explain the title “Moving With” and what insights you have learned.
“Moving With” came from a poem I wrote in grief which became my mantra to myself. “There is no moving on, there is just moving with.” I learned I would never move on from losing Mom. I think about her daily and mourn the moments in my life I won’t be able to share with her.
I miss her constantly, but I’ve learned to see signs she’s still with me. She is still with me, just not in the way I knew her before. I consciously open myself to connect with her in new ways. I am my mother’s daughter, and she lives through me now.
As I wrote in one of the poems “During her passing, she molded me, shaping me into her earthly vessel. I am her legacy. The incarnation of her life’s work. Her representative to life.”
