We have learned to structure our grief, however personal and inchoate, by marrying it to an...

We have learned to structure our grief, however personal and inchoate, by marrying it to an invisible timeline that marches to a capitalist beat, two-stepping in time with pressures to be efficient, to progress, to - most of all - get back to work. The problem with such a regimented and overdetermined schedule is that mourning doesn’t work that way. There is nothing efficient or productive about loss, but there it is all the same.

The Last Word, Julia Cooper