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I read an article about how people in grief swear because they feel the English language has reached its limit in a time of inarticulate sorrow. Or at least that is what I tell people when I am casually dropping f-bombs over lunch as I
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She is in such a sad and tragic situation and yet she made me laugh.
“A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had.
But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.”
― Animal Dreams
But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.”
― Animal Dreams
“alcoves”
― Uprooted
― Uprooted
“E-keit ma vi en da sav, e kavi bazh d’en em harpañ,” Emile whispered, as if reading her mind. As long as you can walk upright, you will find a walking stick. As long as you are brave, someone will help you.”
― The Little French Bistro
― The Little French Bistro
“I noted that it is sometimes hard to tell whether you are being killed or saved by the hands that turn your life upside down.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
“Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.”
― High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
― High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
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