Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights:#1 Grief is the experience and natural feelings that come with loss. Some deaths are traumatic when they are accompanied by exposure to the loved one’s physical anguish, medical procedures, and suddenness. But it doesn’t have to be that way.#2 The most beautiful flower grows out of the mud. Our worst moments can be the seeds of our best moments. They have an amazing power to transform us. Meaning matters, and it heals.#3 I am a hybrid of all those things, but there is an underlying theme uniting them all. I have followed this unusual path because of what happened to me during the course of a few days when I was thirteen years old.#4 I have been back many times to New Orleans, and during some of those visits, I’ve stood outside the hospital where my mother died and looked across the street at the Howard Johnson’s hotel where I had spent so many hours between visits to my mother. In 2005, the hospital was devastated by Hurricane Katrina and it was deemed too damaged and old to rebuild.