As a participant in the Certificate in Resilient Service, we were encouraged to make our own Way of Life. A Way of Life is a guide to help incorporate practices that point you towards your values. When the shelter-in-place order started, I began to recognize little parts of my day that brought me joy. It […]
As a way of processing the losses and challenges brought about by the pandemic, students at 天美视频 began to create鈥攖hrough painting, poetry, photography, and many other mediums. Art is a tactile way to express the grief, pain, and longing, moving these emotions out of one鈥檚 body into the open. Here, we share a […]
I鈥檓 sitting in the valley as I write this, coffee steam billowing from my cup next to me, the mountains loom before me in their magnificent gentleness, my calves and feet ache. Yesterday I completed the through-hike of The Enchantments, an ~18 mile trek that careens upwards of 4800 feet through Asgaard Pass in the […]
Manuel Ellis. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Alton Sterling. Troy Robinson. Sandra Bland.Tamir Rice. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. James Chaney. Mack Charles Parker. Emmett Till. Mary Turner and unborn child. The 鈥�60 million and more,鈥� as Toni Morrison puts it. While our bodies and souls ache with the recent abuses of power, we also recognize them […]
It is difficult for me to separate the deep hurt from watching George Floyd die from that of the generations of hurts mingled together of black and brown bodies who have died for no good reason. I want to be clear: there is no less pain when black and brown bodies harm each other, or […]
鈥淭he hearts of the people cry out to the Lord.聽 Oh wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night鈥�.pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord.鈥澛� ~Lamentations 2:18-19 These words of the prophet Jeremiah situate themselves in a devastating part of Judah鈥檚 history鈥攖he […]
Hope is building a house that she imagines will be a home. She didn鈥檛 plan to build, there was the hope that maybe she could inherit the family home, the one that鈥檚 been passed down through generations. But the thing is…the home is older and wearier and rotting out. There are deep cracks in the […]
Dear Mary, mother of Jesus, I don鈥檛 have a song this morning. No new news and nothing notable to think on beyond your song, Mary. The angel Gabriel visited you to announce a birth and I am sure you could have handled any announcement, but it wasn鈥檛 any announcement, and it would require you to […]
Heather Abbott shares about her journey with stage 4 cancer and the relentless, hope-filled joy that she found even in the midst of great suffering.
Dr. Jo-Ann Badley points out that, despite the evidence of the Gospels, our imaginations are captured by the image of the grieving mother Mary. Perhaps because the image of Mary is us, and we are encouraged knowing that our tears and sorrow are met with God’s presence.
Beau Denton reflects on the gifts the poet Mary Oliver left us with, and what her life and work reveal about the nature of love.
Jeffrey Batstone presents 鈥淥pening to Grief Through Self-Compassion鈥濃�攁n examination of our relationship with grief through a posture of self-compassion.