Both Sides Now

holding two feelings at once (a slightly edited repost)

A-Side

At this moment, as war still rages in Ukraine and elsewhere, and we warily emerge from months of anticipatory anxiety, blinking our way into an uncertain, precarious future, it seems a good time to remember the juxtaposition of grief and joy.

My big-hearted friend Margaret Renkl recently wrote in The New York Times:

I want to find words for how the …