Amos is right, Kendall. "Tough" is not all it's cracked up to be. There will be times ahead to be tough.

But right now, just imagine all this love around you as a great big feather bed, piled high with quilts and pillows, and fall back into it and rest.

Weep if you have to (I read somewhere or other that weepy tears are chemically different from the slicing-onions tears -- they flush out excess stress hormones from our systems, and that has to be a good thing).

Here's a thought that I could just as easily post to your "Lines that really grab you" thread -- from THE CASTLE OF DRAMORE (sp?): "A little rest, and then the world is full of work to do."

Morning will come!