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Jamie
How do we bear witness? How do we bid farewell?
Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder • They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration – Emergence Magazine
Grief is not just an emotion—it’s an unraveling, a space where something once lived but is now gone. It carves through you, leaving a hollow ache where love once resided. In the beginning, it feels unbearable, like a wound that will never close. But over time, the raw edges begin to mend. The pain softens, but the imprint remains—a quiet reminder
... See moreYou 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.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
As strained as our relationship is, she’s still my big sister. And I’ll never stop wishing for more with her.
Elsie Silver • Flawless: A Small Town Enemies to Lovers Romance
“He’s Gone” by Paul Zach.
After the cross has been carried,
after the weight is laid down,
after the body is buried,
down where the darkness surrounds,
after the end of the violence,
after the sky has gone dark,
now there is nothing but silence,
broken by the beat of our heart.
He’s gone. (×4)
After the last words are spoken,
we lay him down in the grave.
Afte... See more
After the cross has been carried,
after the weight is laid down,
after the body is buried,
down where the darkness surrounds,
after the end of the violence,
after the sky has gone dark,
now there is nothing but silence,
broken by the beat of our heart.
He’s gone. (×4)
After the last words are spoken,
we lay him down in the grave.
Afte... See more
“I had never known a feeling as unbearable - as sour, wrenching and unshakeably sad - as pity for a parent.” - Ghosts
What you mean is how am I managing to cope, now that Tig has died. Am I lonely? Am I suffering? Is the house too empty? Am I checking all the boxes of the prescribed grieving process? Have I gone into the dark tunnel, dressed in mourning black with gloves and a veil, and come out the other end, all cheery and wearing bright colours and loaded for
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