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...therapy at Alive Hospice. "My counselor helped me see that I had to do things like make social plans, even though after Maxine's death I was lonelier with people than by myself," he says. As he has learned to understand the grief process, he feels the veil of sorrow lifting. "Maxine's death was the worst thing to ever happen to me," he says, "but I'm starting to meet old work friends for lunch, I'm going to church activities, and I stay busy with yard work. Sure, I'm hit with grief now and then...
...much as the previous one, and any that follow will trouble you even less. In some respects, this is a good thing, particularly if the initial reaction was excessive. But it's also unavoidable given our tendency to habituate to any unpleasant stimulus, from pain and sorrow to a persistent car alarm...
...former New Yorker, and the photographs of missing persons on the wall of that Baghdad police station reminded me of the pictures and notes on walls in downtown Manhattan after 9/11. The desperation and sorrow of people whose loved ones have disappeared is very familiar. The story of Waddah al-Anbari's ordeal as a kidnap victim made me shiver, cringe and wonder whether I would be able to keep my wits in a similar situation. It also got me to thinking about the untold consequences of war. Please keep telling these stories...
...John D. Kapusta ’09. Kapusta’s singing was full of dynamism and energy and made the story easy to understand. Though the narrative aspect of the cantata was much improved, the applicability to modern life was still hazy. Its themes of betrayal and sorrow are obviously universal, but the cantata simply lacked the feel of modernity present in the last two cantatas.In the third cantata, “Amour piqué par une abeille,” Venus and her son Love are in a garden. When Love is stung by a bee, he seeks...
...humor went out of style.A writer for “The Onion” declared that “the age of irony is over.” Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show,” cried on the air.David Rees felt the same sorrow, confusion, and anger. “In New York City after 9-11 you could literally smell death,” he recalls. “It was dreadful.” But he had an entirely different reaction from those other funnymen. He decided to make a comic strip.Five...