Weaving fragments about mistrust of grief…
Weaving fragments about mistrust of grief ... isolation ... compacted sorrow ... and grief as love into our accessible voice ... With captivating nuances that add quirky sweetness and emotional depth while maintaining clarity and invitation ... Invite a few people into your home and say ... tonight the topic is loss ... But let's just make some agreements ... We're not going to fix anything ... Grief isn't a problem to be solved ... It's a presence awaiting witnessing ... and when we witness grief ... we also add the best kind of human warmth to it ... There's an old alchemical principle that says that the material in the vessel must be kept warm in order for it to continue to move and evolve ... When we approach our grief with coldness ... it congeals .. hardens and does not move ... So our first move is to bring warmth to this territory ... to bring compassion and kindness ... to bring attention and affection ... so that this place might begin to soften and then be allowed to move and shared with others ... Grief wants company ... From the time human beings began to gather ... grief has been shared communally ... and now under the weight of individualism ... colonialism ... capitalism ... We've been forced to carry it alone ... So we need to find our way back into small circles where we can touch the edges of our sorrow and make our discovery that our grief is entangled with one another's grief ... We may have a particular expression of that sorrow ... but we share a communal cup of grief ... and we need to gather together so our cup can continue to be emptied ... Not just for personal benefit ... so that we might love this world more ardently ... so we might be able to bring love into the streets ... into the faces of the young ones we meet
