A story of grief and grieving (part I)

We don't know how to relate to the experience of loss and how to grieve.  Some think grief is only about the loss of someone you love, but it's the process we go through when we confront the inevitability of loss in forms, and the threat to it evokes.  When we can't be with grief we develop an imbalanced relationship with it; either shutting down or becoming overwhelmed by emotions like sadness (or anger!).  This is the first of a 2 (or 3!) - part series on grief and grieving.