Five Remedies for Sorrow

1. Pleasure (excepting sin)
walking, reading, slowly, softly

2. Tears
slowly, softly

3. The compassion of friends
Rilke, Teddy, Toni, Jonathan

4. Contemplation of the truth
I need do nothing.

5. Sleep and baths
slowly, softly

—Saint Thomas Aquinas

Artwork:
Pissarro, C. (1895). Bather in the woods. [Oil on canvas]. Retrieved from Wikipedia.