Reflections on lives lost, mugs broken and repaired, and an invitation to give love one more chance before we collectively break under pressure beyond repair.
I was thinking of the Queen song when I saw the intro/title of this post. It's a very interesting time to be combatting a lot of implicit, slowly brewed, indirect forms of nihilism that have built up. There's a very interesting intergenerational stacking of this, indeed.
Condolences for your loss, I've dealt with some this year, too.
What a beautiful reflection and reminder to pay attention to the things in our world that are in need of tending and mending. Thank you, Mat, for sharing the story of your grandmother - and by extension allowing us to be part of your grieving. Standing right beside you (in spirit) fellow Earthian.
Mat, my deepest condolences on the passing of your grandmother. I hope you are able to find some space and time to grieve, to remember, to celebrate and to find some serenity in all of that. What a remarkable life she no doubt lived, and what a shift in times our grandparents lived in and through, including the inconceivable WW2 and the immense undertaking that followed to restore peace, unity and harmony. Maybe a lesson for our present times in that.
Thanks Nathan, the service and celebration of her life was beautiful and this will continue in the stories we continue to tell. The challenges our grandparents went through were extraordinary but in many ways so are the ones we are living through now.
I was thinking of the Queen song when I saw the intro/title of this post. It's a very interesting time to be combatting a lot of implicit, slowly brewed, indirect forms of nihilism that have built up. There's a very interesting intergenerational stacking of this, indeed.
Condolences for your loss, I've dealt with some this year, too.
What a beautiful reflection and reminder to pay attention to the things in our world that are in need of tending and mending. Thank you, Mat, for sharing the story of your grandmother - and by extension allowing us to be part of your grieving. Standing right beside you (in spirit) fellow Earthian.
Mat, my deepest condolences on the passing of your grandmother. I hope you are able to find some space and time to grieve, to remember, to celebrate and to find some serenity in all of that. What a remarkable life she no doubt lived, and what a shift in times our grandparents lived in and through, including the inconceivable WW2 and the immense undertaking that followed to restore peace, unity and harmony. Maybe a lesson for our present times in that.
Thanks Nathan, the service and celebration of her life was beautiful and this will continue in the stories we continue to tell. The challenges our grandparents went through were extraordinary but in many ways so are the ones we are living through now.