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Staying Afloat
In the years following my sister’s death, I fell, as so many people who have experienced loss do, into a dark abyss that seemed expansive, almost bottomless. Its darkness colored everything around me,…
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Losing Hope
“SHE’S GONE.” In that moment, my knees gave out from under me and buckled, my back hitting the glass wall of the post office entrance, where I had been shipping home boxes of…
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Discovering Joy
For most of my life, I had believed that happiness and joy were interchangeable feelings, synonyms for the emotion we feel when things are going well, when we are content and untroubled. They…
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Beginning with Hope
“Although he had no inkling of where his future would lead him, he did feel strongly, often with anguishing clarity, that his destiny was shaping itself.” – Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund At…