Weeping
is a state of temporary enlightenment: the physically felt edge between a previously fixed presence and the sudden traumatic transformation of that fixedness, into movement, into acknowledgment, into a grief that has until now, been kept at bay. Weeping is often the most physical, and authentic conversation we will ever hold in our life or in the world we inhabit: the meeting of what we have been holding so tightly with all those people, those precious things and those precious times, we must now, so shockingly, let go of and give away.
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