Kate @ Lion's Roar
I was thrilled to be featured — with Ben’s beautiful, technicolour-painted three year-old face — in Lion’s Roar Magazine earlier this winter. It’s now online, a reflection on the emotional shock of supporting a loved one through death, and coping with the fallout in all the life that continues on, after:
“Don’t panic. Just love. Never mind fussing about answers or a lack of them. All we know and will ever know is this: here we are. We may as well love as well as we can.
Try to take care, because all we know for certain is we don’t know much.
Try to be kind, because all we know for certain is we don’t know much.
Try to keep trying, because all we know for certain is we don’t know much.(Not knowing much is the only certainty there is.)
Randomness is not bleak, unpromising, or the domain of pessimists. It’s empty soil that waits for you to see dirt as the blank slate it is. Seeking meaning? Bah. You’ll turn yourself inside out trying to make sense of why we’re here or why we leave. Our lack of innate preciousness or ordained purpose makes us all the more precious, more purposeful. The profound rarity that you ever came to be at all! That you are you as opposed to any other billion permutations of this microscopic lottery, that I am me. That despite the randomness—here you are, as you are.”
Read the feature in its entirety over at Lion’s Roar:
