The Counterweight of Joy

I think it's possible to live in the kind of joy that you can see in someone like Desmond Tutu, Archbism. And people who've been through very difficult circumstances in their life that seem to embody this eternal joy. In order to get there, you kind of have to have this counterweight, right, like this perspective. You wrote a really beautiful post about contemplating death when she wrote about a year after your mother passed.