"All things of grace and beauty, such that one holds them to one's heart, have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes." - Cormac McCarthy, The Road Seek out something beautiful today. Visit a greenhouse or a florist shop. The beauty of nature helps you to feel hope again... a... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Saturday, June 7, 2025
"When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing." - Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Have you been able to laugh yet? Can you see the humor in everyday things as you once did? With significant loss and sadness comes an initial... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, June 6, 2025
"I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures....We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow." - Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship Tell a story... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
"Grief is love turned into an eternal missing." - Rosamund Lupton, Sister To have grief means that you have had love. A life without love would be far more difficult to bear than one with loss. Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
"The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that, of course, we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious." - Francine Prose, Goldengrove. Have you picked up the phone to call your... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
"When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now." - Jude Watson, In Too Deep Your loss may make you feel out of control. This can lead to a downward spiral affecting all aspects of your life. To help, find a way... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, June 2, 2025
I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days." - Victoria Hanley, The Seer and the Sword When you are in mourning, your instinct may be to withdraw from society until you feel better. However, by isolating yourself, you... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
"We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all." - Joan Didion, The Year of... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, May 31, 2025
"The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love." - Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves. There will be times when you feel more anger than sorrow. While this is natural, do not let the anger take over how you see the world. Know that this feeling will pass, and that the... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, May 30, 2025
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination." - C.S. Lewis, A... Sign in to see full entry.