Healing is slow; it hurts; it unfolds in a nonlinear fashion. Grief is the time signature of that slowness, the wisdom resulting from the pain, and the optic perspective afforded from the haptic experience of nonlinear movement.
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In this piece, originally written for Still Standing Magazine, Joanne explores the Danish concept/practice of “hygge” and wonders about its applicability to grief. She offers ideas for bringing the warmth and light of a Danish winter into our homes to remember our beloveds during particularly griefy times.
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Regardless of whether or not these penguins are grieving, we can still learn something important about grief from this striking image.
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A guest blog from our friends Sam Butler and David Harradine of UK-based Fevered Sleep. Here, Sam and David reflect on their ongoing project, “This Grief Thing,” which opens up space for grief through pop-up shops in cities around England. In these spaces, the typical silence around grief gives way to stories, intimate moments between strangers, and the many kinds of expression made possible by bodies gathered together in solidarity. This post links back to our episode with Fevered Sleep on the To Grieve podcast. Please listen to that after reading Sam and David’s reflections.
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Recent news reports have revealed the decimation of one of the world’s largest Emperor Penguin colonies. Deciding not to ignore this situation but, rather, to open to the pain of this scope of loss, Will finds himself wading deeper into the process of active grieving that he has undertaken since the deaths of his father, son, and step-father.
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Joanne discusses why and how cultivating a creative grief work could help us to attend to our own personal healing and to extend this healing outward through connection. Grief can move us in so many surprising ways if we invite in the learning, healing, and growing that can accompany it.
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