So much ice.

She thumbed a drying tear away.

How much water can the weight of ice carry?

Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

It’s okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,
like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it’s vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.