"The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. You know what I mean? I’ve always liked that phrase He was visited by grief, because that’s really what it is. Grief is its own thing. It’s not like it’s in me and I’m going to deal with it. It’s a thing, and you have to be okay with its presence. If you try to ignore it, it will be like a wolf at your door," – Stephen Colbert, who lost his father at a young age, in a wide-ranging interview with Playboy.
(Photo: Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Adams Memorial statue near Adams Morgan by Flickr user redherring. Its informal name is simply the Grief statue. It is one of Washington's least known marvels, and you really have to go there and see its full setting to appreciate it. From Wiki:
Erected in 1891, the monument was commissioned by author/historian Henry Adams (a member of the Adams political family) as a memorial to his wife, Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams. Marian Adams, suffering from depression, had died by suicide through the ingestion of potassium cyanide, which she otherwise used to retouch photographs. Adams advised Saint-Gaudens to contemplate iconic images from Buddhist devotional art.)
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