Mothering Magazine Higher Ground: Grief and Joy

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Grief and Joy

Grief and joy come circling to all, like the turning paths of the Bear among the stars. The shimmering night does not stay for men, not does calamity, nor wealth. But swiftly they are gone, and for another man it comes—to know joy and its loss.”
-Sophocles

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