Finding Grace

by Loretta Rothschild

It was as if the house had been burgled but it wasn’t the contents that’d been stolen, it was the context.

Nobody on earth has the constitution to metabolize the sudden and terrific loss of unconditional love.

The days are long, but the years are short”—

Grief’s iron grip never weakens. You just become accustomed to its hand around your throat, moving forward but never moving on.

Depiction of grief