Good Grief?

What it is and why we all need more.

Change is all around us.

Every day, all day long, things are changing. Whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.

Grief is the pain we feel when we suffer loss.

We all suffer loss every single day. And yet few share their grief.

Come Grieve With Me

I’m going to show up here once a week to write about grief.

To invite you to think about grief.

Because very few people I know think about grief often enough.

And the more we bottle it up, the more volatile we grow.

We need safe spaces to share grief.

Churches and religion have served important functions to large populations in part by acknowledging and ritualizing grief. A human need. A human need absent from capitalism. Warfare. Crisis.

Leading those involved in capitalism, warfare, and crisis to stuff their grief.

Leading to no national period of mourning or acknowledgement of COVID losses. No information campaign to help guide millions of traumatized people to recovery services desperately needed. No moments of silence or on-site resources for…