underscored

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I am not saying this just to offer comfort to those who have lost someone, as if to say that in time everything will be all right, because even though it will be, it won't be. Rather, I am acknowledging that although this day marks the 11th anniversary of the worst day of our lives, it is also a beautiful day, with the sun shining, a child playing, a man enjoying a cigarette, a world quietly waking and moving forward.

Nick Cave
3h ago

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

5d ago

We are always getting ready to live, but never living. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

2w ago
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The Feeding

She wanted to forget having been sick, while I was in the next room, sobbing like she was already gone.

1mo ago

He died after I tried to. I'm here and he is gone. D.S. Waldman revisits the space between his own near-death and the death of his brother, drawing on a trio of poems to better understand the narrow threshold that only one of them crossed.

2mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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