The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
our actions, speech, thoughts, everyday actions, and gratitude mattered.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
blessing for the gift of all of them having lived long enough, hard or easy, to have loved what they had lost.
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
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Grieving and the ocean ceremony
Men who had been physically wounded had left a piece of themselves in the battleground, in exchange for their intact souls with which they returned home. The unwounded soldiers who caused and witnessed the war that others experienced in their bodies took the war home with them,
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
After a lengthy initiation into the village society of warrior priests, administered by men who had in the past been initiates, men who had themselves also killed in the past, these two men were mystically turned into a different kind of human altogether. As changed beings, they would then assume their place inside the society of warrior priests, a
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Like how the original wound eventually drives person to a purpose that involves helping others with a similr wound
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
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
grief and praise make us alive.