Writing helps the grief process. C.S. Lewis wrote about the palliative impact of writing in A Grief Observed and Cicero explains the healing impact of words in The Nature of Gods. Like Lewis, Cicero found the world of words a rich retreat. Kit Dove is one of those pages that is enough to make you cry. When my father died I turned to words and found that my muse was there to console and comfort me, just as these words on this web site must have helped ease the intense sense of loss. Kit Dove inspired me to put the reading I prepared up onto the net to publicly declare my feelings at the time of my father's death.