Elizabeth A. Weber
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October 20, 1957
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“The only thing I had done is determine that I won't run away from this mourning process. When everyone else was clamoring for me to come here or go there, or do this or don't do that, I keep my own counsel. As everyone shouts their own "bad advice" as Mary Oliver calls it in her poem "The Journey," I turn to my own voice. As I proceed deeper and deeper into this journey, the clearer my own voice becomes.”
― A Beautiful Mourning
― A Beautiful Mourning
“Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life-force.... It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness. Grief is alive, wild, untamed and cannot be domesticated. It resists the demands to remain passive and still. We move in jangled, unsettled, and riotous ways when grief takes hold of us. It is truly an emotion that rises from the soul.”
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A stunningly beautiful contribution to our collective understanding of grief comes in the unlikely form of the movie “A Monster Calls” which is about a 12 year old boy who is about to lose his mother. Regrettably this movie has not been doing well at the box office simply because it is hard to categorize. It does not seem appropriate for young children and adults don’t seem to fully understand t







