Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up. - Mitch Albom

As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here. -Morrie

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.

Despair has its own voice. It is a prayer unlike any other.