As I was talking with Mary Alyce just now, I was reminded of a book, then later a play I had heard about on NPR. Called a year of "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion. I looked it up online to remind myself of the storyline and found this on Amazon.com. I thought it was amazingly interesting and intuitive. While I think reading this book may be a bit above what my heart and mind has to give right now, it does look like a fantastic book.
Amazon.com: The Year of Magical Thinking: Books: Joan Didion: "propelled Didion into a state she calls 'magical thinking.' 'We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss,' she writes. 'We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return and need his shoes.' Didion's mourning follows a traditional arc—she describes just how precisely it cleaves to the medical descriptions of grief—but her elegant rendition of its stages leads to hard-won insight, particularly into the aftereffects of marriage. 'Marriage is not only time: it is also, paradoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age.'
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