Mirabai Starr: Loss
"People will often avoid mentioning our loved one's name for fear it will remind us and make us sad. As if we could ever forget! As if we had stopped for a moment, being sad! Our sorrow is directly connected to our love, and we refuse to be shamed into relinquishing it. In fact, when someone is brave enough to speak of our loved one, it can be such a relief. It means she existed; she mattered. For a moment, there is another being to help lift and carry the great weight of her
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Maria Popova: Love Anyway
" You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that the loving face too will one day fade to indifference or bone, and you love anyway — because life is transient but possible, because love alone bridges the impossible and the eternal. " "I think about this and a passage from Louise Erdrich’s 2005 novel" Life will break you. Nobod
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