Our theme this month is The Opening of Loss. Loss often conveys closings and endings. At a recent grief education and support gathering, participants spoke about the desire to put pieces of their losses behind them, to close or end things. When we put something behind us, the assumption is we move forward from that place. Loss creates a threshold between life before and life after. Stepping across that threshold from the closing of life before into life after is stepping into an opening. What will life after look like, who will we be there, and how will we make our lives good again? These are some of the openings of loss.