A sad ending, but a tremendous new beginning
the hard parts and get to the happy ending. She needs to edit my story so that it fits inside her story about how good things happen to good people and life is fair and things tend to work out nicely in the end.
Glennon Doyle • Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir
most of us think we ought to take charge of our lives and plan carefully when we’re trying to start again after an ending. As we shall see later, most of us do that prematurely, for our most important beginnings take place in the darkness outside our awareness.
William Bridges • Transitions (40th Anniversary Edition): Making Sense of Life's Changes
What are the practices and mindsets that can be helpful to navigate loss, grief, change and transitions? And what does it mean to make good compost as we close ideas, forms, collective creations that no longer serve us?