UPFRONT August 20, 2007 Issue

Grief—'the unmaking of' it

WARREN BOLON, SENIOR WRITER

After watching a movie on DVD, I like to stay tuned for the "making of" feature that sometimes comes as an extra on the disk. Directors, actors, screenwriters, and cinematographers take me behind the camera to narrate the development of these complex artistic enterprises.

Soon after listening to Leigh Daugherty and John Adams talk frankly about some heart-rending challenges they have faced in their lives, I realized that this week's Sentinel would offer a very different kind of bonus feature. Through their experiences and hard-won insights, they show how to unmake grief itself. How to break free from sorrow's tangle of down-pulling mental images and influences. How to find a spiritually based peace and completeness—a new sense of purpose and more certain conviction that life goes on for those we love, because the divine Life goes on eternally.

Leigh and John, along with Tami Moulton in her article, "A different kind of answer," also take on some of the other ways in which grief can entangle our thoughts and lives. Their roads to healing offer the kind of stories we love to tell.

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