Good Grief 44

Dead husks and new life
 I am sitting very much at the dead husk end with little belief or hope in the new life bit ... but I can just about manage to sit with the idea of it being a possibility ... on a good day ... with a following wind ... at the moment I remain in what kendall so wonderfully and evocatively describes as 'at sea in unknowing'.

"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped — to reach it. For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven."

Edward Carpenter