Pen to Paper

"Profound losses leave us paralyzed & mute, unable really to comprehend them, still less to speak coherently about them. Yet, eventually, we do speak — we breathe, we sleep, we eat, we go for walks in the sun, we find ourselves laughing with our friends, as we lose the white-hot flame of the most intransigent grief, and pass into another, less desperate sort of being." ~Joyce Carol Oates

NY Times article "Why We Write About Grief" By JOYCE CAROL OATES and MEGHAN O’ROURKE