CS Lewis wrote that dealing
with grief was like adjusting to life with one leg amputated. He said that our
whole way of life changes, and that while we may get around pretty well, we will probably walk with a limp and have recurrent pain for the rest of our
life. After his wife died, Lewis didn’t think he would ever walk smoothly
again.
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Postnote
Deborah Greene wrote movingly
about her father’s death and the Japanese art form kintsugi, a method of
restoring broken pottery with a lacquer of precious metal. You can read her
March 18 post, “On Grief and Brokenness” at http://reflectingoutloud.net/2016/03/18/on-grief-brokenness/
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