I had the privilege to interview Jennifer Senior, who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning article for the Atlantic which was turned into a book, On Grief, praised by Oprah, Cheryl Strayed, and John Green.
Senior eloquently and movingly tells the story of a family who lost a son on 9/11 and the various paths they chose to grieve.
In her research she discovered the family also used this phrase as a means to both celebrate their son’s life and mark his death – “life loves on.”
Family members had those three words engraved on a bracelet they never took off and even had them tattooed on their arm.
Why? The phrase pointed to and reminded them of the truth in life and in death love continues, abides, and does not falter in helping us to move forward.
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