A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go

“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s necessary losses, “and we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leaving and letting go.” We know that loving anything or anyone is a contract with loss, and yet we love anyway, our lives a ceaseless osmosis of ho