In defense of Magical Thinking

Do we underestimate this skill and its impact on wellbeing and resilience?

Friends,

Recently, while reading a memoir called Grief is for People, I remembered the late Joan Didion’s memoirs on the same topic. Grieving the loss of her husband John Dunne, Didion confesses in writing to finding some small comfort in the passing of Julia Child around the same time. Because, she notes, now John and Julia can share a meal in heaven. I…