Grief, I have come to believe, is one of the trickiest terrains most of us will eventually have to negotiate. Like most painful experiences, we do our best to avoid mourning our losses. We try to define grief, to mold it into our human illusions of an orderly and comprehensible world. We come up with…
A simple list of names: seven men; one woman. The first two names on the list were a married couple, I know a little bit about them, not enough. I know nothing about the other six men on the list. They are all, however, joined in eternity. A married couple and six other humans they…