Longtime friends Jane Brooks and Joyce Burd decided to combine their skills, Jane as a writer and Joyce as an arts administrator, to bring ballroom dancing to 5th grade classrooms in Philadelphia.
A new book about loss is reassuring. In The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss, George A. Bonanno, a Columbia University clinical psychologist, acknowledges the acute sorrow felt after a death, but points out how resilient most people are. Those experiencing loss fluctuate between pain and happier emotions, seek comfort, maintain their equilibrium and find renewed meaning and pleasure in life.
