“If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have …
Tag: Passings
Jul 30
June 2025 – Quote of the Month
“It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look at something you’d otherwise …
Oct 29
September 2024 – Quote of the Month
“What words are these have falle’n from me?Can calm despair and wild unrestBe tenants of a single breast,Or sorrow such a changeling be?” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson; In Memoriam A. H. H.
Aug 26
July 2024 – Quote of the Month
“The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.” ~Edvard Munch
Jul 17
June 2024 – Quote of the Month
“I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.” ~Erin Morgenstern
Jun 29
Missed Time
People tell each other, ‘You did a so much.’ But we know all the things that we didn’t do that we could have. That we should have.
May 27
April 2024 – Quote of the Month
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ~Anatole France
Mar 31
February 2024 – Quote of the Month
“There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find.” ~ Richard K. Morgan
Sep 19
August 2023 – Quote of the Month
“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, (Aragorn), The Return of the King
May 27
Gun Defense In Memoriam
There is something seriously broken about the United States. It goes deep to the bone. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ~ Second Amendment to the United States Constitution There are various readings of …
Aug 29
The Dreamers of Dreams
I really know next to nothing about the man Gene Wilder who died today at the age of 83. We are the music makers… and we are the dreamers of dreams. ~ Willy Wonka But I do know that he left an indelible glowing and warm memory in my childhood: that of Willy Wonka …
Apr 14
March 2016 – Quote of the Month
“Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Jul 14
June 2014 – Quote of the Month
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later… that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty …
Jun 15
May 2014 – Quote of the Month
Overheard at a gravesite: “And they all said ’I’m sorry for your loss,’ as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me. – Robert Brault,
May 10
April 2014 – Quote of the Month
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. ― William Wordsworth
May 10
March 2014 – Quote of the Month
“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
Mar 20
A Hard and Bitter Winter
… But today is the start of Spring and may it bloom all the greener. In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Jun 06
The Sound of Summer Running
I learned today that Ray Bradbury, my second favorite author, died on June 5th. He was 91. As Tolkien was to fantasy, so Ray Bradbury was to science fiction – both popularized their genres. And like Tolkien, Bradbury wrote prose like it was poetry. I still have the old, well loved books and even now, on …
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