Grief walks in many forms, and its footsteps are padded and quiet, imperceptible even, except to those who lay awake at night, counting its tip taps on the upper floor.
Read moreFire, Cake and Stone: A Wayfarer’s Guide to Remembering by Deborah Burghardt
Though different cultures and different pastries, the narrator and I both bake in our memories. We share the human desire to displace grief and make our sweetest moments last.
Discerning Different Shades of Grief by Jeffrey Millstein, MD
In my essay, “Remembrance,” I discovered my own grief for a recently deceased long-time patient while continuing to care for her widowed husband. John Jacobson’s piece “Now and Then” (Fall 2018 Intima) brought me deep into the chasm of a different type of grief, from loss of someone who was, and to a more attuned place from where to offer empathy.
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