I also wrote & submitted a poem last night.
Good grief, am I all over the place these days. As is the world, I suppose!
In university I had a friend from Uganda who told me that in her village, it was appropriate to laugh when hearing terrible news, because the news was already going to break your heart - so laughter was a defense against the rest of you breaking too. She was probably embellishing a bit, but the concept has stuck with me ever since.
Life takes enough.
Don't give it more. ποΈ
βI know now why you laugh. You laugh when it hurts, and there is nothing else you can do about itβ- Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
@MLClark
Wakes in my family always quickly begin to sound like a rowdy Irish bar, full of "The Regulars".
I don't know of any better way.
@MLClark
How I love this story. We laugh lest our hearts break πππ