We can love each other, standing in the full knowledge that what we love will die. We can love each other, knowing that feeling the other person’s pain is a sign of our connection, not our doom. It’s terrifying to love one another this way, but it’s the way we need to love. Our own personal lives and our larger, global, interconnected lives call us to love in this way. The middle ground of grief, the new model of grief, allows us to love each other that way. It’s the only way forward.
