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‘The Light Has Gone Out of My Life': Young Teddy Roosevelt in Love and Grief
On October 18, 1878, a nineteen-year-old Theodore Roosevelt met Alice Hathaway Lee, a sixteen-year-old girl from Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts who is described in all accounts as charming, feminine, and...
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‘Tragedy without Reason?': Robert Kennedy Endures His Brother’s Death
“Tragedy without reason? But was there anything in the universe without reason? The question echoed: ‘Why, God?’ For an agnostic the murder of John Kennedy seemed one more expression of the ultimate...
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‘The Mystery of Suffering': Robert Kennedy and the Meaning of Grief
“Over Easter in 1964 [Robert] went with Jacqueline, her sister and brother-in-law, the Radziwills, and Charles Spalding to Paul Mellon’s house in Antigua. Jacqueline, who had been seeking her own...
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Jefferson on Taking Life as It Comes
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities...
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Mr. Jefferson, Would You Live Your Life over Again?
“You ask if I would agree to live my 70, or rather 73, years over again? To which I say Yea. I think with you that it is a good world on the whole, that it has been framed on a principle of...
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How the Greeks Grieved
Menelaus, the head of the table, overheard And, speaking to both of them, had this to say… “I would gladly live with a third of my wealth To have those friends back who perished Far from the bluegrass...
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“Immortality Ode” by William Wordsworth
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not,...
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I Am a Strange Loop
“In the month of December, 1993, when we were just a quarter of the way into my sabbatical year in Trento, Italy, my wife Carol died very suddenly, essentially without warning, of a brain tumor. She...
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