void

There's been a sudden death in my family this week, so I'm in upstate NY and will not be blogging again until I get back to Brooklyn on Monday. For now I leave you with a quote from the book I'm currently reading, which I feel is all too appropriate…

"We have no way of knowing that the funeral itself will be anodyne, a kind of narcotic regression in which we are wrapped in the care of others and the gravity and meaning of the occasion. Nor can we know ahead of the fact (and here lies the heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it and grief as it is) the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself."

- Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking