The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
Pets began as an attempt to ritually remember and be responsible to what feeds us and what we must kill to live.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
It is a terrible source of grief in itself to not be able to grieve.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
When you first arrive toward the sea for the day, don’t just walk up like you own the place (even if you do, for spiritually you never will). You must learn to approach Her as you would a queen because She is greater than a queen. Ask permission out loud to be in the presence of the great “lady” ocean. Be in awe of Her and all the life around and i
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Grieving and the ocean ceremony
When our womb time comes to an end, it is so monumentally heavy that whether it becomes traumatic or not wholly depends on the awareness level of the people who are there to receive and surround us at birth,
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
Grief is praise of those we have lost.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
We must remember that until our own heart develops, we are not yet ourselves but another treasured part of our mother: a precious organ that will slowly develop away from her
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
when you turn to leave the beach, don’t turn around and look back at the sea or where you gave your grief to the sea, or some of your grief will freeze onto you again and follow you back home.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
just when we begin to feel expert and comfortable, that is exactly when the nature of life’s restless heart forces us to move completely out of that previously comfortable era into one in which we are hopelessly inexpert.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
they are Holy and alive and listening. Get that firm inside you, so you don’t come and go as if the natural world was just a dead inanimate prop for your therapy.