Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Sitting on Dark Mountains


Grief is the coming of darkness. In the beginning it’s a void of everything we’ve known and loved.

When my beloved died, I went to Yosemite and sat by myself in the darkness on Glacier Point and watched the constellations of the night sky above and the campfires of people a mile below, trying not to think about the bears and mountain lions that lived in the wilderness behind me. The world I had known had abruptly ended, and I was thrown deep into the cosmos where there were no sounds and every constellation was unfamiliar.

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