Laps with Lemon (2023) is a one-day read (93 pages) about love. It was written in real time during the summer of 2023. I cannot recommend it enough. Let’s get into it.
To love.
To love and be loved is to eventually experience loss, pain, and grief. Overwhelming at times. Unpredictable, too. Just when will the waves come? Additionally, there is no escape – except to shut down and never let love in.
This is what happens to children – more often than not. [see The Loneliness Of Children (1980) John Killinger] Most often, now, because of divorce. Sometimes, however, from a parent’s death, or a grandparent’s. It could also come as a result of a friend or sibling’s death. Even moving. It is always an undeniable consequence of war.
None of these tragedies happen to everyone (the lucky ones); but almost everyone – at least in the West – loses a pet.
Why death?
Why and what is death is a mystery for which there is no satisfactory explanation. For a child, anyway.
There is just time. And a replacement. And lies. Lies we tell our children, and lies we tell ourselves.
This book, Laps with Lemon, rejects that. It tells the truth about death, and love, and loss. And attachment.
About the author.
The author, Jake Jabbour, is my son. He’s my child, my kid. However, he’s not a child, he’s a man. A grown man of forty years. He lives alone (with pets) and has battled depression and loneliness for most of his life. He lives in Los Angeles and has an Improv school.
I could not be more proud of him and what he has done with his life.
To get a copy of this book, track down Jake. It’s free.
jakejabbour.substack.com
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