When her husband died in 1985, Austrialian pastoralist Sara Henderson (born September 15, 1936) took over managing duties at the Bull River cattle station. She was named Businesswoman of the Year for her efforts and wrote about the experience in her autobiography, From Strength to Strength.
“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

well, if nothing else it's kind of interesting....



“So contemporary neuroscientists seem to have confirmed what Montaigne intuited – that humans have an inbuilt empathetic capacity and that the strength of this capability depends on proximity:
No wisdom is so highly formed as to be able to imagine a cause of grief so vivid and so complete that it will not be increased by the actual presence, when the eyes and ears have a share in it. Montaigne went further,...

So it's been a year today since my mother died. My dad, was a chronic alcoholic and very abusive verbally. He died this last March. The stress of the entire process-the will-etc etc. It didn't let up 1 day in the last year. But it's just now, slowing down.
I've accomplished a lot in my life. Learned a lot about people.
I wish more people just appreciated being happy. I've had very few times where I was happy. I have never understood how anyone could ever take for granted, being truly...

people get into trouble for saying or writing anything like this, I think because society feels that unless you have somehow earned your pain honorably and acceptably, that it's not real, or worse yet, that it's shameful and a mark on your character as well as your intelligence to express it. I will never travel very far, I will never live in a house, I will never be able to contribute to society until well after my death. An inheritance, As I knew it wouldn't- doesn't change the family you have,...

https://www.ecorazzi.com/2013/05/15/i...rugs-for-pain/