Life and Death and Mud
Children laugh an average of 300 times a day. Little kids splash in the mud. They don’t hold back. They don’t want to sleep because they might miss something. They ask a thousand questions and blurt out profound truths. They take terrible risks to discover new things. They discover dogs, dandelions and dinosaurs. They revel […]
Thanks for Everything
My field is working with death and grief. “Isn’t it morbid?,” people ask at parties. “Aren’t you sad all the time?” All the time, no. When I’m living through a personal loss, yes, it’s sadder than anyone else can imagine. But between my own terrible losses, I have life, amazing moments, humbling sights, a planet […]