Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.

Sometimes it’s hard to see the rainbow when there’s been endless days of rain.

If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that...

You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.

Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.