What goes together hand in hand.
become fluent in the language and customs of grief. If we don’t, our losses become great weights that drag us down, pulling us below the threshold of life and into the world of death.
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
How is it that we have attempted to keep grief separated from our lives and only begrudgingly acknowledge its presence at the most obvious of times, such as a funeral?
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
“Grief, by its nature, is cyclical. It gives us the promise of peace at its end.”
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
What was missed can never be made up for, only mourned and let go of.