Great Quote from Plan B by Anne Lamott

"I have survived much loss, as all of us have by our forties.
Rubble is the ground on which our deepest friendships are built.
If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person.
But this is also good news.
The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged up heart. You dance to the absurdities of life, you dance to the minuet of old friendships." Anne Lamott

There is a song out by a Natasha Bedingfield called "Unwritten" that I think Muff would have loved.
Here are some of the lyrics:

I am unwritten,
Can't read my mind
I'm undefined.
I'm just beginning
The pens in my hand
ending unplanned.

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
so close you can almost taste it
release your inhibitions..

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it on
One one else no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten.

I break tradition
Sometimes my tries
are outside the lines

We've been conditioned
To not make mistakes
But I can't live that way, no no.

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
so close you can almost taste it
release your inhibitions..

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it on
One one else no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten.

Muff would have agreed with that song, as a writer and a creative person, just as I identify with it as a journalist.
So this dance is for you, my friend. You're still there in my broken heart.