🕊️ Condolence Messages

You meant well. Of course you did. Almost every painful thing said to a grieving person was said by someone

You’re standing right in front of them. Or on the phone. Or on the doorstep with a casserole dish and

The card is in your hands. The pen is ready. The inside is completely blank. And your mind has gone,

You found out. You meant to say something. And then somehow three weeks went by. Maybe you saw the announcement

Violence changes the grammar of everything. Most grief has a shape — a way of being spoken about, a language

The water is different now. That’s something you hear from families who’ve lost someone to drowning. The beach they loved.

There’s still time. That sounds simple, but it’s actually one of the most significant things about this moment. Unlike the

They had so much ahead of them. That phrase gets said a lot after a young person dies. And it’s

They were in the middle of something. That’s what makes death from a heart attack different from almost any other

Think about how much they witnessed. The whole sweep of a century — or close to it. The technologies that