In the first year after his son Eric died in a mountain-climbing accident, Christian philosopher and scholar Nicholas Wolterstorff spilled his grief onto paper. Sometimes I think that happiness is over for me. But I can still laugh, so I guess that isn't quite it. Perhaps what's over is happiness as the fundamental tone of my existence. Now sorrow is that.
Sorrow is no longer the islands but the sea.
4 Susan Cohen's daughter Theo, at age twenty, was murdered by the terrorists who blew up Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. I didn't need cliches. Most of all, I didn't need anyone telling me there was something wrong with the enormous rage I was feeling. Of all the emotions I have felt since Theo's murder, anger is the best. Rage gives me energy.