“To live in this world
you must be able to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.”

–Mary Oliver, “In Blackwater Woods.”

Grieving is at once an incredibly personal experience and a universally human one. Many people find it isolating, finding themselves outside of time somehow - the whole rest of the world continuing to move forward while they remain frozen in a standstill. Additionally there can often be a felt pressure to 'get on with it' after a brief period and rejoin that forward stream like nothing has happened, even though you might still be reeling from loss.

Fortunately, there are those who understand and who are working to change our culture of denial, impatience and intolerance of grieving. The links below connect to some of that work and the community that is being built around it.

“Man is not destroyed by suffering, man is destroyed by suffering without meaning” – Viktor Frankl