I can feel her grief from across the country. There once was a time when that overwhelming grief in someone else would have panicked me. But because I know what it is to mourn, I can feel that darkness gathering in someone else’s heart. It would have been unbearable to me to sit still with it. Once upon a time, I would have run away. But now I know I can hold her peacefully within my heart and still have room left over. If this is the result of my own sorrow—an enlarged capacity; the ability to contain heartbreak not my own—if this was the deal, then it’s acceptable to me. Duchess Goldblatt
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