"Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?" - Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden Your family and friends may be more worried about you than you realize. Be sure to check in with them and talk about how you are doing periodically. Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Friday, November 28, 2025
"Hold him in your memory, and soon, you'll find him in your dreams." - Unknown You will see your loved one again in your dreams. It will come when you least expect it and will give you some comfort. Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, November 27, 2025
"What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose ourselves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger." - Carrie Jones, Entice How are you coping? What does your grief look... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
"The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for a while, you feel the warmth draining out of you, and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
"It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone." - Annie Proulx, The Shipping News It would be comforting to know precisely how long the grieving process takes. Everyone you talk to has his/her own advice, and books on the subject have differing opinions as well.... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, November 24, 2025
"I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh." - Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son There may be days when you find yourself crying as much as you did when you... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, November 23, 2025
"If he didn't love so deeply, he couldn't grieve so deeply. But he's drowning in it." - Dee Henderson, The Protector Think about how someone you know seemed when he or she was grieving. How did you feel being around that person? While it's tough to see yourself objectively, try to determine how you... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
"Grief... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness." - C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, November 21, 2025
"I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don't want you to think of me and feel sad." - Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl Do something special - be it lunch with a friend or a walk in the park with a relative - and take a... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
"We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering." - Helen Keller, We Bereaved There will be times when you mourn the person you were before you experienced the loss of a loved one. Sign in to see full entry.