Grief is a universal teacher in this classroom called life, blooming from the emptiness of loss. How do we fill that empty cavity with luminosity? Is it possible to grieve skillfully and gracefully? Afterall, the poet Elizabeth Bishop says “the art of losing isn’t hard to master.” So how do we make art of our grief? How best to journey from this separation to healing, despair to hope, incompleteness to wholeness? Samantha Thornhill offers some perspective, poems, and prompts to help you process the beauty that sorrow brings.