Choir has resumed today – hurray! I’ve just come home from seeing The Roses, a thoroughly enjoyable piece of nonsense described as black comedy, beautifully acted and sometimes quite startling!
Another poem came my way today, one that I’ve shared before and it still touches me deeply . 
To love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.~Ellen Bass
(Book: Mules of Love)
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