Enjoy the totality of a day, even those parts of the day that are sad, frightening or awful.
Black humor, it turns out, is a perfect tool for capturing the sad-awful-frequently-insane incongruities of war.
In recounting her adventures as a reporter in one of the most dangerous regions of the world, the author captures both the serious and the seriously absurd conditions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, using black humor to convey the sad-awful-frequently-insane incongruities of war.
'I read them all, and they were very sad - awful.' Among them, though, was a letter from a herbalist in Hastings, who claimed he could put her Crohn's disease into remission for life if she took his herbs and went on his diet.
That is the sad and awful fact of what has happened in Haiti over the past eleven days.
"That's so sad, so awful," we told them, trying to give them clues on how to absorb the incomprehensible.
This year's world events seemed disproportionately weighted towards the tragic, sad and awful.
