Humans Are Vulnerable, Messy Little Animals And

The Oldest Sibling Always Knows Things That The Younger Ones Don't.

There's Great Sadness And Life Doesn't Work Out Like You Would Want, On A Lot Of Levels, But There's No Need To Feel All Alone. This Happens To Everybody, So There's No Self-pity. This Is The Ride That Humans Are On, And All Of It Is Essential For Our Natural Part Of It.

To Me, Sadness And Humor Aren't Disrelated And Humor Is The Best Tool I've Had Against The Sadness In My Life.

My Experience, With Both My Parents, Is That Grief Has A Lot Of Down, Sad Things, But I Was Also Really Emotionally Raw, In The First Year After Each Of Them Passed. Flowers Smelled More Intensely, My Relationships Were Hotter, And I Was More Willing To Risk. I Was Going For It A Lot More. I Was 'unsober' And I Wasn't Playing By My Rules.

We Never Did Things As We Were Supposed To Do. That Was Part Of Our Ethic. We Did What Felt Right To Us, Not What Someone Told Us We Should Do.