Art is One Way to Cope With Pain

And nature is a form of art

Photo by Susan Gold on Unsplash

There’s a lot of pain in the world right now. Close by, a friend’s husband has been diagnosed with an incurable disease that affects his ability to walk. Another friend is alienated from her daughter and granddaughters and threatens to cut me — her oldest friend — off because of a stupid and tactless interaction. A third is in a contentious marriage that…