Steve Gold

The Value of a Sense of Humor There’s no better survival instinct. You’re so lucky if you’re raised with it. It’s one of God’s greatest gifts, because life is full of the dark and the light. You gotta look for the light. My parents were both really funny, and a sense of humor was always appreciated. Laughing and being funny was highly encouraged at our table. --the late Catherine O’Hara

The Thing Is to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weighs you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think,  How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no...

Natural Causes We have all heard the phrase “died from natural causes”. How about “lived by natural causes”? --Steve Gold, with many thanks to Andrea Gibson, Colorado poet laureate