MELANCHOLY A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

There are times when we find ourselves experiencing periods of melancholy; some are born with a melancholic temperament (like Eeyore from A.A. Milne’s books about Christopher Robin and Winne the Pooh). Sometimes it is there when you awake. Other times, as English poet Keats puts it, “the melancholy fit shall fall, sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud.” Books, songs, paintings and plays have been written about the bittersweet emotion that is melancholy.

Melancholy Has Value

Melancholy is a wise place to be as we sift and sort through things.

It is a pensive time of inner reflection and rumination where we can look into our lives, the wounds and insults we have sustained and