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The Sacred Bond
“To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit it.”
— Jeanette Winterson
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When people die, I give them jobs to do and today I was thinking about what job I will give Peter Brook. I am sure countless actors and directors will be calling upon him in the months to years to come. But I want to task him with something big enough for his outsized genius, a task worthy of his talents from the other side.
— Perdita Finn
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There is a certain death that occurs as part of the healing process, in the deepening of self-awareness, something that does not survive illumination….
The dissolution itself is initiation as it offers vision not available in the scramble to put things back together. An old part of ourselves that has accompanied us for so long, a fellow traveler is no longer permitted to continue the journey by our side. The crumbling of an old dream — my life and the way I was so sure it was going to turn out.
