Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life...

[cheshcat]

I keep writing things and then not having time to post them here, because work is being crazy-busy. Gah. This is not acceptable. Many cool things have happened. Let me pick one and have it take over this post:

miss_amaranth  and I watched Eat, Pray, Love (the Director's Cut). It was surprisingly good -- not as good as Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir, which I adored,

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[selki]

But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.

Yes.

'So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked.
'Sometimes people live there for years,' I said.

And yes.

[cheshcat]

*wry smile* And yes, and yes.

It's amazing the place we can get lost in.