Midnight at the Blackbird Café

by Heather Webber

Pain changed people. I couldn’t go back to the way I’d been, because I wasn’t the same person who’d left.

You let fear take away your voice.”

Grief can change a person to the point where they become someone they don’t know, or even like very much.

“It’s kind of astounding, isn’t it? How one split second can alter so many people’s lives? Dividing our lives into categories of before and after?

Above all else, the guardians must nurture the love. Without it, all is lost.