familiar steps, small steps. To do ordinary things to deal with
something that is in no way ordinary.We're always going someplace
new, all the time.
Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into
unfamiliar territory. You take those small familiar steps, and you
try to be honest, not to live as if nothing had changed but still to go
on with your life. But there are times when what you need is
a piece of how things used to be