💙 Summertime Blues 🐚

The COVID lockdown put grief front and center in our lives in a way we had never experienced before. We learned during the pandemic that loss and grief arrive into our lives in many ways, shapes and sizes. We are not much encouraged in our culture to spend time honoring our grief in order to move through it.

Grief is both ephemeral and rock solid in our experience, as it is body based emanating from our hearts. If we do not love, we may be spared the experience of grieving, yet what would the significance of our lives be if we avoided love altogether in order not to grieve the loss of that love? Love and grief frame our humanity, imbuing our lives with meaning . That is why we decided to dedicate this month’s reader to honoring grief in our lives during the dog days of August. ~ Karen