“What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.” LossFoodEatingTrackMidnightSpoonsReunionDiningFamily Reunion Author:Roger Ebert
“Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed natural world, often with a trace of loss and always patrolled by unmistakable decency. He is a master of this form.” WorldHumansFormNaturalLossMastersDrawsTrackProseParallelsDecencyNatural WorldBassHypnoticUntamed Author:Doug Peacock
“Whether we experience it or not, grief accompanies all the major changes in our lives. When we realize that we have grieved before and recovered, we see that we may recover this time as well. It is more natural to recover than to halt in the tracks of grief forever. Our expectations, willingness and beliefs are all essential to our recovery from grief. It is right to expect to recover, no matter how great the loss. Recovery is the normal way .” WayWellsMayMatterBeliefRealizingNaturalLossGriefForeverOur LivesEssentialsNormalMajorsExpectationsTrackRecoveryWillingnessHaltAccompanyMajor Change Author:Judy Tatelbaum
“Hillary Clinton has a long track record of service in public life. And you can look at that. I tell the story about her being first lady of the United States, when the effort to get Hillary Clinton done failed, and that was a tough, tough, bitter loss, but then it tested her as a leader. And she worked together with Democrats and Republicans to get health insurance for eight million low-income American children in the CHIP program.” FirstsLooksChildrenLongStatesDoneStoriesTogetherLossUnitedEffortLeaderMillionsUnited StatesRecordsRepublicanLowsToughProgramClintonDemocratTrackEightIncomeBitterTestedChipsPublic LifeFirst LadyTrack RecordLow Income Author:Tim Kaine
“Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs also "train" us in ways of focusing on targets, ways of regarding suffering and loss.” WayWarSufferingLossHeardTrainPhotographTrackVisualsTargetAudio Author:Judith Butler
“We were doing something called telemedicine, where we were using the ultrasound. One interesting application of this ultrasound is the possibility that you could possibly use it to measure critical bone areas during a long space mission and track if you're losing bone in these areas. On Earth, when they check you for bone loss, you get in this big machine. It's the size of a room and it's got a platform with an x-ray that scans your whole body and in critical areas and it takes a while and it just wouldn't be practical to have a machine like that in space.” LongEarthLossInterestingPossibilityLosingTrackBonesApplication Author:Leroy Chiao