Trouble the Teacher
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Trouble the Teacher
Life is fierce and difficult. There is no life we can live without being subject to grief, loss and heartbreak. Half of every conversation is mediated through disappearance. Thus, there is every reason to want to retreat from life, to carry torches that illuminate only our own view, to make enemies of life and of others, to hate what we cannot unde
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It is rare that anyone gets through an Earth School journey without collecting some pretty gnarly wounds. So rare, in fact, that it seems to me that trauma is an inescapable part of the Earth School curriculum. Not a bug, as they say, but a feature.
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this has happened to me, what do I do now, and who is there to help me do it?”
Harold S. Kushner • When Bad Things Happen to Good People
“I only came to the end of myself because someone needed me to keep it together, and I couldn’t.”19 Karr writes, “By checking into the hospital, I’ve said in some deep way uncle . . . I’ve stopped figuring so hard and begun to wait, sometimes with increasing hope, to be shown.