A completely different take > > http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=37&blogid=21 > > > After my son died, I had no one to go with > Hi David - my deepest sympathies > > I found this closing remark of Joseph Campbell (In A Hero with a Thousand Faces) strangely comforting, a little while after my son died. > > It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal - carries the cross of the redeemer - not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.-Thank you. It fits.