What goes together hand in hand.
Grief, as I understood it—grief and I were acquainted—is the kind of loss that sets you on fire as you struggle to put it out.
Elizabeth McCracken • The Hero of This Book
Grief is part of life, throughout life. Though we may be afraid of it, it isn’t bad; it simply exists, a shared human experience. Over
Beth Pickens • Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
In the aftermath of the tragic, when silence or “being with” or an embrace may be the only appropriate responses, then only embodied presence will do. Its consolations are irreplaceable.
L. M. Sacasas • Impossible Silences - The Convivial Society
Grief is a portal, an altared state, through which we can come to experience more magical understandings of this world and ourselves, as we realize our immersion in a world that is multidimensional, mysterious, animate, always changing.