Accompanied by Grief: Solstice

 While it's sad to lose a loved one at Christmas, I do so appreciate the Winter Solstice writing around this time. The longest night seems to be a kind of death the earth grieves. I wonder what it would be like to lose a loved one in bright sunny July?  A few Solstice writings... 

@jkramseywrites

you do not yet know
how hope is taking root
under the surface
of today's sorrows. 

you do not yet see
how you are 
being nourished
to grow strong.

bless the darkness.

even for a moment.

And this...

Grief, I've learned, is really 
just love. It's all the love you
want to give, but cannot. All that
unspent love gathers up in the 
corners of your eyes, the lump in
your throat, and in that hollow
part of your chest. Grief is just 
love with no place to go. 

-Jamie Anderson.