Grief and Death
"Avoiding feelings isn't the same as protecting feelings. Our child dies a second time when no one speaks their name."
Mitch Carmedy
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad
Christina Rosetti
“It speaks of such integrity to refuse to pretend that you’re doing well just to help other people deal with the fact that sometimes we face an impossible loss.” Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. How much sorrow can I hold? That’s how much gratitude I can give. If I carry only grief, I’ll bend toward cynicism and despair. If I have only gratitude, I’ll become saccharine and won’t develop much compassion for other people’s suffering. Grief keeps the heart fluid and soft, which helps make compassion possible.” Francis Ward Weller
“Grieving is like having broken ribs. On the outside, you look fine, but with every breath, it hurts.” Author Unknown
“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Mitch Carmedy
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad
Christina Rosetti
“It speaks of such integrity to refuse to pretend that you’re doing well just to help other people deal with the fact that sometimes we face an impossible loss.” Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. How much sorrow can I hold? That’s how much gratitude I can give. If I carry only grief, I’ll bend toward cynicism and despair. If I have only gratitude, I’ll become saccharine and won’t develop much compassion for other people’s suffering. Grief keeps the heart fluid and soft, which helps make compassion possible.” Francis Ward Weller
“Grieving is like having broken ribs. On the outside, you look fine, but with every breath, it hurts.” Author Unknown
“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring