Please Open Slowly

After loss, first there is the shock.
Then comes the noise, the chaos, the disorientation.

Sit in the soup. Seek stillness. They say.

Open to the not knowing, to the wonder. 

Tend to the ache, yes, but let yourself reorient—
to the vastness, the randomness, the mystery of it all.

Every experience from here on out takes on a new shape. A new texture.

Please open slowly.