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Year of the comets a journey from sadness to the stars

By DeBlieu Jan.

On the clearest nights in the darkest places you can see as many as twohousand stars. On what scaffolding are they hung? Jan DeBlieu began toonder. Her husband had become enveloped in a depression of his own, and bothe and DeBlieu were struggling to find points of light out of that darkness.eBlieu discovers it in the sky above, a firmament of order and beauty thatrompts her to consider the worlds inside our minds, the delicate frameworkf neurons and synapses that support our fragile selves. "Year of the Comets"s her record of the journey she and her husband take from pain to healing.