Grief

  • “If you live long enough, you’ll know deep pain.”  An older woman told me this when I was very young, and I thought it was rude, wise, and off-topic – all at once. Why would she interrupt my blissful youthhood with such an ominous statement?  Well, sure enough, years passed, and I began to figure…

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  • 5 stages of grief

    5 stages of grief

    Life doesn’t make sense. Everything on earth is vanity upon vanity, we often say when faced with difficult, high-impact or irreversible life situations such as death of a loved one. People from all walks of life and across many cultures—at some points in their lives—go through the stages of mourning identified by David Kessler as:…

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