“In our springtime
there is no better,
there is no worse.
Blossoming branches
burgeon as the must.
Some are long,
some are short.'
Stay upright.
Stay with life.”
Source: Three Shadows
“There are all sorts of losses people suffer- from the small to the large. You can lose your car keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.”
Source: The Storyteller
“as if all the years haven't dulled that moment. She's staring at a spot of air in front of it, and I know, in that spot of air, is her son.”
Source: Words in Deep Blue
“Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: plus Sonnets from the Porte-Cochere by S. H. Bass
“It's funny how sometimes you don't see the obvious things coming. You think you know what life has in store for you. You think you're prepared. You think you can handle it. And then-boom, like a thunderclap-something comes at you out of nowhere and catches you off guard.”
Source: The Last Time We Say Goodbye
“I don't reproach the spring
for starting up again.
I can't blame it
for doing what it must
year after year.
I know that my grief
will not stop the green.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“When you have the enthusiasm to keep knocking on the right door, you will rise even after a devastating fall.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief.”
Source: Open Me
“[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.”
Source: Moonglass
“Synthesis is the gateway to Transcendence, because once you accept that you are forever changed and that life is forever different, you have to ask, "What are you going to do about that fact? Will the change be for the better or for worse?" It's the loss itself that becomes the catalyst for meaning. (pg 273)”
Source: Transcending Loss: Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and How to Make It Meaningful