A wise woman once told me a half hour ago that grief is like an hourglass full of sand.
In order to process it you have to feel each grain of it. You can avoid it but you can’t hurry it and you can’t be done with it until you have done each bit of it.
I’m at my moms house right now. I am getting ready to take a trip down to Montana, and I’m grabbing a few things from the house to take with me. I’m sad and it’s quiet except for the furnace and the sound of cars passing on wet streets.
There’s a thunderstorm outside. The weather has been so wet this summer. Good news for the garden.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
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