3-2-1: On the source of inspiration, the bond between love and grief, and the power of hope
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3-2-1: On the source of inspiration, the bond between love and grief, and the power of hope
The one thing to remember is that those who give us what was missing in our past also show us what was missing. That combination of fulfillment and grief can be hard to hold, so we have to be patient with ourselves.
David Richo • How to Be an Adult in Love: Letting Love in Safely and Showing It Recklessly
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life begets growth
growth begets growth
how can our minds be so resilient
to such growth
how can our hearts
pump ever stronger
as if to burst
the garden of growth’s walls
a hedge of prickly thorns
amid insurmountable mountains
how is it that in my periods of extreme depression, I had thought the worst of thoughts. and yet, today I still breathe the delici
... See moreI told her about an essay by the poet Donald Hall, who, in his eighties and anticipating his own death, felt a resurgence of grief for his late wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, who had died many years earlier. Hall’s grief was compounded by the realization that his wife would not be there to comfort him at the end of his life as he had been able to comf
... See moreSuzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
It may take many years and just the right circumstances or person to grant us the liberating opening to know and to tell our story in words. When this happens, the memories come back and we hear ourselves putting them into words for the first time. This profound release initiates us into the heavy and healing ways of griefwork.