The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
Elaine Childs-Gowell’s book, Good Grief Rituals,1
Connie Dawson • Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
Grief both acknowledges what has been lost and ensures that we don’t forget what must be remembered.
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
Toward the album’s end, “O Wow O Wow” seems to provide a response: The pain of feeling broken is ultimately an affirmation that our late loved ones still live on within us. The day the hurting stops is the day they’re truly dead. Wild God reminds us that joy and sorrow aren’t mutually exclusive states, they’re more like adjoining rooms in a house; ... See more
Grief offers a wild alchemy that transmutes suffering into fertile ground.