Corrective for a Broken Heart

“Life will break you,” Louise Erdrich wrote in her passionate insistence that “you are here to risk your heart.” It can happen with a shattering, or with a thousand small fissures, but the great paradox — the great salvation — is that every time it happens, you live to see you are unbreakable. And so, a poem. CORRECTIVE FOR A BROKEN HEART by Maria Popova Why all the threadbare drama, the stale catastrophism of calling it broken? It still beats, doesn’t it, still trembles at the sight of fog flowing through the forest like a slow dance song. It was… read article