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how do you cope?
“Over three years now since you left and I am still tired of having people ask, “How are you?” Do they really think I will tell the truth? I am tired of hearing how it was all planned before you were born and how you and I agreed to your death for my soul’s learning and for yours. No one here wants to acknowledge that there might just be chaos and
... See moreMegan Devine • It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
It’s easier to create sets of rules that let us have the illusion of control than it is to accept that, even when we do everything “right,” horrible things can happen. In one form or another, this blame-as-a-form-of-safety idea has been around as long as humans have.
Megan Devine • It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
how shock is shared but nothing is done from it, how time can feel like a rubber band that in moments of tension is stretched out of place and snaps right back to its regular business-as-usual form.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
There’s a lot of alienation; a lot of disaster porn. We need grieving rituals so we can go through our despair together, so we can face the losses we know are coming.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
