Y Por Amor / I'm so Full of Love

The word selah (Hebrew: ) — “to pause, reflect, and feel meaning” — appears almost seventy times in the poetry of the Psalms. Grief by its nature is poetical, elegiac. And poetry, like grief, is subversive, unbridled, and disobedient. Poetry violates linguistic norms because it must. Poetry helps us feel. And when we allow ourselves to feel that wh

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.

When we mourn the extreme levels of suffering in the world together as a community, we can be held and hold others as we each go through our own personal cycles of grief, or what the Germans refer to as Weltschmerz (a deep sadness about the imperfection of the world). Such communal solidarity can get us through our darkest moments and ensure we red

You might say grief is the price you pay for loving something or someone, but it is also a privilege, because it is what allows authentic beauty—which isn’t always pretty, but is always truthful—to find its way through you. And this beauty medicine is what the world needs most to heal.