I got nothin’ for you guys today.

But I stumbled on a fantastic article about dealing with loss from a website that I am pretty much obsessed with.

I figure we’ve all experienced loss or we all will someday. So hopefully this will be useful to you at some point. It is very applicable for me right now and when I read it, I felt comforted.

Warm tea. Concrete step. Old movie. Sad heart. Leaky pen. Crumbly soap. Scratchy towel. Sore shoulder. Dog-eared book.

I am here.

And maybe this whole life work-process-thing of meeting myself where I am, with all my stuff and all my hurt, is — at least in part — why I’m here.

Learning that things change. Learning how they change. Rewriting patterns. Deconstruction and new creation. Taking things apart and rebuilding.

Taking everything apart. Finding the essence. Building beautiful new things from the pieces.

Read all of it here.