Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness

by Kathryn Schulz

we can learn to face even our gravest losses with acceptance, equilibrium, and grace.

Above all, it forces us to confront the limits of existence: the fact that, sooner or later, it is in the nature of almost everything to vanish or perish.

Second, every member of my grandmother’s family that had remained behind in Poland was sent to Auschwitz.

I can affirm that there is nothing in this world more wonderful than the feeling of being reunited with something precious that you thought was permanently lost.