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“This singular memoir stunned me. With a poet’s precision, Rachel Eliza Griffiths renders two interwoven tragedies few others could have lived through, much less written about with such clear-eyed candor.”—Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of The Liars’ Club “Elegant and...

Santa Fe artist Terre Reed grapples with the unique newness and disorientation of widowhood. In her struggle to rediscover and redefine herself, her art blossoms. Even as she grieves the loss of her husband and their life together, Terre reveals an often humorous story that provides hope and inspiration. Reed's reflections on the end of life and her determination to rebuild herself truly illustrate that the best way to honor the deceased is to use the energy of grief to rise, renewed.

So perhaps you thought this was going to be a tale of how I traveled to some exotic land, how I left everything behind, and how I met fellow travelers on some road to Zanzibar to recover from my grief. Perhaps you thought this was going to be a story of redemption, of how I lost myself in booze and then found myself on some street corner or dark alley, and then got my life back together again. No, rather this is the story of how I went deep inside myself and found a reservoir of strength in my day to day existence, in the small motions and rituals of ordinary life.