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‘‘Tis a fearful thing
To love
What death can touch.
[…]
‘Tis a human thing, love’
“We must be come fluent in the language and customs of grief. If we don’t, our losses become great sights that drag us down, pulling us before the threshold of life and into the world of death.”
“everything we love, we will lose”
— Apr 13, 2025 08:47AM
To love
What death can touch.
[…]
‘Tis a human thing, love’
“We must be come fluent in the language and customs of grief. If we don’t, our losses become great sights that drag us down, pulling us before the threshold of life and into the world of death.”
“everything we love, we will lose”
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aaron
is on page 23 of 224
“To counter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of loss and keep it nearby” p. 23
1. living in the ashes (p18)
——ancient scandinavian example p16
2. Roseto effect (pp.17-18)
——heart disease and belonging
3. non-redemptive mourning: is ‘not to finish with the past but to keep it from slipping away in a present that continues to deny it’ pp.18-19
— Dec 29, 2024 01:19PM
1. living in the ashes (p18)
——ancient scandinavian example p16
2. Roseto effect (pp.17-18)
——heart disease and belonging
3. non-redemptive mourning: is ‘not to finish with the past but to keep it from slipping away in a present that continues to deny it’ pp.18-19
aaron
is on page 11 of 224
to tend to our grief, committing to an apprenticeship with sorrow is a subversive act, staying with grief is a declaration of our refusal to live numb and small in a world that seeks through sad affects to pacify, flatten, and deny expansiveness. “the earth is a revelation offering itself to us daily […] soul returns to the world when we attend to the rhythms of nature”
— Dec 19, 2024 11:10PM
