Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy …

Anne Lamott
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Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence. ✨ Anne Lamott (2000). Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, p.65, Anchor
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Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence. ✨ Anne Lamott (2000). Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, p.65, Anchor

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