Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
Meghan O'RourkeI am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
Meghan O'RourkeMy mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.
Meghan O'RourkeMy whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
Meghan O'Rourke