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It was always secondary to the experience of sitting around the table and listening to stories from the people I love, fueled by a second bottle of wine and a shared history of joy and sorrow.
AS A FOOD WRITER WITH COVID, I WORRIED I’D LOSE MY SENSE OF TASTE. IT TURNED OUT TO BE MUCH WORSE.TIM CARMANNOVEMBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POST
In grief it is difficult to think of everyone, but when you do, beauty intrudes upon sorrow, and something lifts.
EIGHTY YEARS OF MEMORIES THAT WILL STIR READERS’ OWNCONNIE SCHULTZNOVEMBER 20, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Joy, on the other hand, has a mysterious capacity to be felt alongside sorrow and even—sometimes, most especially—in the midst of suffering.
HOW TO FIND JOY DURING TOUGH TIMESBY ANGELA GORRELL/THE CONVERSATIONOCTOBER 9, 2020POPULAR SCIENCE
Kids who use dark play to explore violence, sin, and sorrow can make their parents mighty uncomfortable.
PLAYING BAD CAN SHAPE BEHAVIOR, BUT NOT IN THE WAY YOU THINKERIN BLAKEMORESEPTEMBER 28, 2020POPULAR SCIENCE
What makes The Idiot so good, the place where both the humor and the sorrow lie, is in the accumulation of its main character Selin’s observations as she watches “all the irrelevant garbage.”
WHY ART MATTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLDCONSTANCE GRADYSEPTEMBER 25, 2020VOX
For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
Three short years had not taught her how to bear sorrow with full knowledge.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLING
The baby had thrived; as placid, laughing a little thing as if its mother had never known sorrow.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
Could he have a sorrow which she might chase away, and, having the power, lack the heart to do it?
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
APRIL 12, 2021
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