Our feelings ... become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for ...

I have been on a deep dive in the exploration of loss and grief in the last while, and have been encountering the notion that we are amongst a whole population walking around with unprocessed grief.

Not only the unprocessed feelings around our individual losses: of loved ones, health, career, hopes and dreams, but the loss handed down over many generations of our connection with nature and the deep wisdom of indigenous cultures who lived in harmony with the Earth.

Audre Lorde’s quote made me wonder what radical and daring ideas are also being lost, moment by moment, if we continue to avoid the feelings we have been taught to label as “negative”?

Wondering about this gives me the courage to know and accept my grief, along with my joy and gratitude.