He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

May the beauty of the flowers remind us of the beauty of our loved one's spirit

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

I see you in the grass,Running through the snow,But where you have gone,I cannot go.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

My head is full of fireand grief and my tongueruns wild, piercedwith shards of glass.

My head is full of fireand grief and my tongueruns wild, piercedwith shards of glass.

Grief made fools of us all. There was shock in it, but there could hardly be surprise.