Yesterday, while I was at the Northridge Greek Festival, I spent some time reading Buddhist Nun Pema Chödrön. She had some interesting things to say about those times when nothing seems to go right. The quote is from her book When Things Fall Apart:

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.