https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/when-beautifying-your-grief-does

«To embrace hopelessness is to realize that beauty and discipline can easily tip into the ugliness of avoidance— a way of trying to run from death and the reality of impermanence. Instead of rushing to re-invention, there is true strength in sitting with my multiple deaths, and resisting the urge to put fake flowers and plastic glitter over the very real bones of old dreams.»

Not a sentiment one runs across very often.

This is a really great essay.