When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.
I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.
There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.
Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.
Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.