The extract below is from Love doesn't care if you forget by Brianne Grebil. It might be one of the shortest books we ever recommend but it's one of the most powerful too. It is a message of comfort in the darkness. Not an idealised, unrealistic depiction of life, but the fact that love arises at even the hardest times and is the liferaft that means we can keep going.

Briane's mother has Alzheimers and this book is her exploration of how she found a different relationship with love as a result of it.

Sadly many of us do face the paradox of life being desperately unfair as well as it being a gift to be alive. This book doesn't shy away from the unfairness, but neither does it shy away from the joy life brings.

With love to you and yours.

"Over and over again, through this experience with my mother, I have come to see a truth of life. If there is something we actually need but don't know how to get or do, one of two things will always happen. Either life will take care of it for us, or we'll figure it out (which is just another way life takes care of it for us). When I look at any aspect of my life, I have no evidence to the contrary. I have always figured out what to do, how to do it, how to move past it or get over it. Or, life somehow took the issue off my plate.

And that tells me that there is some other incomprehensible aspect of life that exists beyond our knowing that takes care of things for us.

I have no better word for that aspect of life than Love."