Poem: Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness
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Poem: Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness
metabolizing suffering into something beautiful
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
For Gopal, each Slip and Slide of our civilizational unravelling is a chance to remake the world, a chance at liberation, a chance to redistribute power — and suffering — more equitably.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Jamey: Yes. What I want to do is take a deep breath and then sink low enough in the pool that I can feel the bottom and push off from it. I want to know what’s down there. I want to know how bad it truly is. I want to avoid a scenario in which my fear and anxiety prevent me from looking at the truth, but I also want to avoid a situation where I am
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
There’s a certain freedom that comes with losing the things you thought you couldn’t live without. And a certain power in realizing that none of it broke you—it just stripped you down to the realest version of yourself.
Grief offers a wild alchemy that transmutes suffering into fertile ground.