Every one of us must undertake an apprenticeship with sorrow. We must learn the art and craft of grief, discover the profound ways it ripens and deepens us. While grief is an intense emotion, it is also a skill we develop through a prolonged walk with loss. Facing grief is hard work. It takes “the outrageous courage of the bodhi heart,” as Pema Chödrön calls it.6 It takes outrageous courage to face outrageous loss.
