Last week I had the great privilege of being part of an incredible thing. ‘Someone, Somewhere’ (written for radio by Pat Davis and brought to the stage by The Green Room Productions) is a beautiful play about the true, and very tragic, story of Jessie Earl. Given the fact that Jessie was murdered in 1980, it was easy to assume that the experience of watching this play was going to be depressing and rather bleak. But threaded through the obvious sadness there was great joy. The play wasn’t about the loss; it was about the life.

“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” ~ Anne Lamott