Have Tea With Your Struggles

A meditation, a final installment of The Pandemic Joy Project

Tea, by Henri Matisse (1919)

Sometimes your heart fills with grief and you want to sink. In fact, you’re probably sinking right now. You can feel it. On the way down you sense the grief of others, too, which combines with yours, and you sink some more. Grief is heavy and there’s so much of it you could burst. Pockets full of rocks, you can’t come up for …