The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
Grief is love. How can we hold this grief without holding each other? To bear witness to this moment of undoing is to find the strength and spiritual will to meet the dark and smoldering landscapes where we live. We can cry.
Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest
But, one could ask, what about sorrow? We all know that there is sorrow in life. It comes to each of us in the loss of someone we love, in the loss of our power
Alexander Lowen • Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life (Compass)
behind. I was flooded with an ecstatic joy which, mingled with my grief, brought me to a sudden awareness that death wasn’t an end at all, but a beginning. I felt as if there was an opening created by my longing, through which nature, who was also Annie, could communicate with me. I understood that I was the cicada too. Annie’s death split my heart
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