Grief remains one of the...
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher death, grief is unspoken, publicly ignored except for those moments at the funeral that are over too quickly, or the conversations among the cognoscenti, those of us who recognize in one another a kindred chasm deep in the center of who we are. (from Anna Quindlen, after writing an obituary for her sister, who died of cancer at the age of 41, “Life After Death,” New York Times, May 4, 1994)
