“ There was healing in the tyranny, and tyranny in the healing. ”
Pain too much to handle also comes with exquisite beauty, as common as dirt, as unexpected as grace.
~ Shannon Huffman Polson
Horror shares an edge with hilarity.
I wondered what those mountains behind them might tell me, what advice they would give, if they could talk. What they would tell me about love, and about loss, and about how this wild place could heal as naturally as it could kill.
There is no greater intimacy than sitting with someone traversing that tenuous boundary between worlds, sitting vigil with a spirit trembling on the border, reaching toward the new and releasing the old.
