We’re All In This Together

“Sorrow, people used to say, is a river. And if you let sorrow move through you, it will wash out those things that are no longer full of life. Grief, people used to say, is an ocean. And in a sense, there are times when everything has to go back to the ocean in order that we all be washed clean, in order that the deep waters from which life came can absorb those things that are no longer contributing to life.

With the amount of people…