the dandelion in spring

watercolors and sharpie pen in moleskine

"What I needed to survive is not … fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that new life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again."

Mockingjay, the Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

in his own Gethsemane...

"This book is a man emotionally naked in his own Gethsemane. It tells of agony and the emptiness of a grief such a few of us have to bear, for the greater the love the greater the grief, and the stronger the faith the more savagely will Satan storm its fortress”

Douglas H. Gresham

Introduction to A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis