“It’s painful, loving someone from afar.Watching them – from the outside.The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs…..They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all.”

“Confront loss as a teacher of the impermanence of all things. Invite it into your life as you would a friend who points out what you are not seeing or avoiding in yourself.”