Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Never Goes Away (What Grief Brings)


We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.  Proust

Our spouses vowed they would never go away. Then they died and disappeared. They did not intend to go, and we did not want them to leave, but they did, and here we are.

In my early days of grief, as I searched through books looking for answers into what had taken my life apart, I noticed that Rainer Maria Rilke and Washington Irving had different opinions about grief, and jotted down their thoughts:

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