grief

“Can we make more of the time that we have? Can we be more aware? Can we be more present?” "We don't allow ourselves to see death as a part of life, which it it's the one thing that we know is going to happen to everybody. Each and every one of us will experience it with ourselves and with everybody we love." —Ben Yalom Toward the end of the pandemic, my partner and I dealt with a lot of loss — our beloved dog, my 99-year-old grandmother, my partner’s mother, and also friends