Healing After Loss

JUNE 19 To have lived at all is a measure of immortality; for a baby to be born, to become a man, a woman, to beget others like ...

JUNE 20 I am glad [the book] came to be written. It has in some strange way refined some dross out of me. It has taught me—thoug ...

JUNE 21 It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and ...

JUNE 22 The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, contents wh ...

JUNE 23 ...there is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a ...

JUNE 24 The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON For some to gaze at the ocean is the way to peace of heart ...

JUNE 25 The future is not yet ours; perhaps it never will be. If it comes, it may come wholly different from what we have forese ...

JUNE 26 If you love me, let me go. —SOURCE UNKNOWN I don’t know to whom to ascribe this quotation. It came to me as a variant of ...

JUNE 27 Since her first grief had brought her fully to birth and wakefulness in this world, an unstinting compassion had moved i ...

JUNE 28 She taught me that grief is a time to be lived through, exper- ienced fully, and that the heavens will not fall if I giv ...

JUNE 29 The day goes by like a shadow o’er the heart, With sorrow, where all was delight. —STEPHEN FOSTER Sometimes it’s hard to ...

JUNE 30 He could feel a hand on his shoulder. “All right,” he said softly. “All right.” He stood at his walker. He could sense e ...

JULY 1 I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting: the wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and ...

JULY 2 Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are usually our own best judge of what we need to ...

JULY 3 One evening I was leafing through a book and my eye fell on a piece of sculpture we had often looked at together...I sat ...

JULY 4 The evenings were the hardest to bear. The ritual of the hot drink, the lumps of sugar for the two dogs, the saying of pr ...

JULY 5 The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal, every ...

JULY 6 When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover some- thing worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle ...

JULY 7 For we have shared many griefs, but they are translated into pure love and rejoicing when we meet. —MAY SARTON What makes ...

JULY 8 In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once ...