September 2007 Newsletter
Grief: The “Unknown” Destination
Joan Didion, in the book entitled “The Year of Magical Thinking”, captures the way many people feel in the face of the death of someone who is dearly loved. Didion says that “Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it … the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself.”