When I started writing my newsletter, I wanted to explore the “breathless pace” of our culture. I wanted to offer an alternative way of living that taps into our soul’s need for rest, meaning, and authentic connection with ourselves, each other, and the world around us. What I didn’t expect is how much my personal journey of grief would help me understand a core truth: that the hectic pace of our culture is actually an overflow of our failure to grieve. There is so much loss in our shared earth, and in our individual lives, and we don’t know how to hold grief and hope in the same hand. Real humanity must include grief over what has been lost. So where do we start?

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• This reflection and practice were also published this week in The Slow Way Newsletter.
• Read The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller
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