Your words cut deep with truth. Beautiful writing. Grief and mourning are complicated things. In one way they beat the hell out of us. But in another, I think without things to mourn, life isn't worth much. I mean if I feel grief, that means I loved something so much that when it left, I truly missed it. This normally hurts but I think it can also heal.

Sometimes I wonder about how it feels to put the picture of grief & mourning into a new frame, one of gratitude. I mean, if I can hurt that much when something or someone leaves, that means I loved in a way that can't be measured. I can have gratitude that I felt that kind of love, because I didn't have to, but I did. I can feel gratitude that those things and those people were in my life and for the time I had with them because it could of very well not happened that way.

I don't know... I guess I'm just thinking out loud here now. Your article really has me wondering. Thanks for this one, truly!