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
Grieving is a sacred art,
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
Then you must gather yourself and without frowning or a gritting of teeth concentrate on making your heart into some flower, maybe a gigantic begonia. When you can fully become a flower, you will know (if you’re in the Americas and it’s summertime) because sooner than you think hummingbirds will begin to flock and buzz around you, fighting to be
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Ritual
Born already capable of real love, of turning their constant awareness of life’s grief into a god-nourishing beauty with the way they would rather live out their everyday existence, their huge desire to praise life by just the way they live with an innate sense of wonder for the earth’s miracle of life
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
In the morning, eat and go with your companion to the chilly sea before the sun rises. Then greet the great ocean and begin to sing or speak great soul poems from your heart, or begin to weep and speak again for the second day. Do this for a couple of days. But no more than three,
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
All promises were promises to life, so any agreement for violent revenge was nonbinding, as it was not for life. Any “promises” made to the vengeance seekers were simply platforms where reactive hatreds could safely and honorably play themselves out without going to war, until they melted into tears of real grief and the war called off.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
Allow the space for all feelings in grieflet them breakdown into base parts of sadness nd tears and praise
In other words, this so-called unrequited heartbreak of Aeyla so faraway and unreachable forces us to begin to learn how to court the Divine: the first grand step toward becoming a whole person, a person who can turn loss into grief and grief into a song of life-giving praise. This is the metabolization of grief into beauty.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
To truly and freely grieve as an entire people can revive an entire culture just as much as it can bring back to life an individual.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
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,