Dear Brave Souls:

My columns at NCR will resume this coming week.

Thank you for holding faith while I helped care for a loved one who was devastatingly ill. She-- and her father-- have just passed. What tender-horrible harmony to these sudden leave-takings: not good or bad, rather-- hard or easy. Hard for us, even though the harmony of it all carries the greater Magnitude ...

You remain in my thrice-daily Angelus, always.

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés