joan didion on grief…
Posted on November 15, 2011
“You need to process it,” she says of grief. “This happened; this didn’t happen; now I’m in another place; I’m not in the place I was; I’m in a different place; this is the place where I am. It’s a sorting movement.”
Joan Didion’s latest memoir, Blue Nights, stunningly covers death, grief, aging, illness, parenting, adoption, writing as a means to process, and momentum as a way of survival. With much respect to you, Ms.Didion.