Martha  Clark  Scala

"One foot after the other." It sounds so simple but we all know it’s not. Grief, in isolation, is a hard bridge to cross.

It started out as a personal directive but now it is my universal invitation: Invest in bringing joy back to your life.

In her poem “Kindness,” Naomi Shihab Nye wrote: “Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other . .

Ask for help when you need it. Give help when you can. Isn’t this a recipe for more joy?

Entropy, a noun that is used to describe a concept in physics, also occurs in life beyond science and it is rather daunting. The philosophy

In retrospect, I see how the most consistent thing I did to metabolize my grief was to make art.