For doing one last task then running consistently five minutes late when the kids were small, I forgive you.

You’re patiently waiting, tail moving almost imperceptibly. You glance my way every now and then as I go about our nightly routine. Turn off lights, plug in phone, set alarm, turn down comforter. Slid...

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh

Scientists are beginning to study the ways that exercise can help bereaved people navigate loss.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. Mary Oliver

I carry his presence with me back inside like a lit votive around which I am cupping a hand to keep the moment alive. James Crews

The sea of grief has no shores, no bottom; no one can sound its depths. Primo Levi

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day. When the fires will wave to me. And the silence will set out ... W.S. Merwin

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

There in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it. Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow? Were the moments of beauty worth the year of pain?  V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Add...

“’They’re never far from us, you know.’ ‘Who?’ I asked. ‘The dead. No more’n a breath. You let that last one go, and you’re with them again.’” William Kent Krueger

Whatever I am doing, wherever I am, I am thinking: Where is he, where is he? He can't just have vanished. He must be someplace. All I have to do is find him. Maggie O'Farrell

It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. Mary Oliver