Top 6 Quotes by Barbara Ascher

Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a

Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.

Barbara Ascher

Running, Grief, Blow

Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

Barbara Ascher

Self, Joy, Solitary

Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins

Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death reminds us that we are part of the same river, the same flow from the same source, rushing towards the same destiny. Were you close? Yes, but we didn't know it then.

Barbara Ascher

Sibling, Heart, Destiny