How to Grieve. Also Live.

How to grieve or live

Every day aim for the light

Even as the sky is black as night.

Turn toward stillness

Maybe you meditate until you find a space between thoughts where everything is peace

Maybe you pet your dog until you let out an involuntary breath

Maybe you walk, face toward the sky, until you feel wonder and your mind stills

These are enough

Every pinpoint of light adds up. 

That dark sky lights up with a constellation of hope.

Put down your furious journaling

Your manic figuring

Stressful meaning making

And see what you find on the other side of stillness.

One star at a time.