It seems to me, after these past 10 days, that the death of a dear one makes us feel like we are ourselves lost.
Tragic, unexpected, untimely death is much harder to deal with. It is a surreal experience - in some ways - both physically and mentally intense, wretchedly transcendent in regard to the anguish we feel…
For days we have walked around with a kicked-in-the-stomach feeling, breathing deep was difficult, looking in each other’s eyes was nearly impossible. The patterns of our daily life have a new gap in them and our connections with the world are fewer and more tenuous.
I have felt both terribly empty and terribly full, and both are made of pain.
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