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Good Grief

Mar 19, 2010   //   by Steve Wooding   //   A Slice of Lemon, Articles  //  1 Comment

IN SHORT: Losses, great and small, bring grief that if denied will lock us into limbo between past and future; we need to allow ourselves to accept the loss and grieve before we can move on to whatever life has in store next.

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”

[Jan Glidewell]

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief… and unspeakable love.”

[Washington Irving, 18/19th century American writer & author]

(1069 words: approx. 6-10 mins to read)

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