That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?
Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.
Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.
In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.
is it like this every night, while we're asleep?
parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.