Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.
Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die.
Mama wasn't dead...exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night, half-naked, head all bloodied red like when they found her by the well that day, and Elma reckoned dead just meant pretendin' you couldn't move or breathe until nightfall when you got up and walked around like you was free.
May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin.
Has your life ever been so messed up that you wondered how you would survive another day?