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Through a Glass Darkly: Miriam Greenspan on Moving from Grief to Gratitude

"Well, the Buddha taught that we increase our suffering through our attempts to avoid it." - Miriam Greenspan

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Barbara Platek, Miriam Greenspan
2008
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‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn

An account of Shahid’s last months and life work by his friend, the writer Amitav Ghosh.

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Amitav Ghosh
2002
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Grief: Coping with the Loss of Your Loved One

Research shows that most people can recover from loss on their own through the passage of time if they have social support and healthy habits.

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Katherine C. Nordal
2020
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Winter: Our Challenge to “Get Out in It”

Each year, on the winter solstice, we share this reflection on the season by Parker Palmer. In 1995 Parker wrote a welcome for the Fetzer Institute’s newly built retreat center, Seasons, which included a reflection on each of the four seasons.

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Parker Palmer
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How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss

In The Long Goodbye, her magnificent memoir of grieving her mother’s death, Meghan O’Rourke crafts a masterwork of remembrance and reflection woven of extraordinary emotional intelligence.

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Maria Popova
2014
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What Goes Through My Mind as I Grieve the Loss of My Mom

"It's been a little over two months since I lost my mom to cancer. When I say the words “I lost my mom" out loud, they don't seem right, because a lost sock can be found again. This isn't just a missing sock. This is a huge hole in my gut, which will never, ever go away." - Katie Karambelas

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Katie Karambelas
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What It’s Like to Grieve a Parent You Didn’t Like

Sorrow, relief and guilt are just a few emotions that may come up when your estranged parent dies.

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Catherine Pearson
2019
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Exile Returned

Agha Shahid Ali’s poems are charmed whispers that can console and devastate

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Joseph Donahue
2009
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The Death of a Parent Affects Even Grown Children Psychologically and Physically

Losing a parent is among the most emotionally difficult and universal of human experiences. Most people will experience the loss of their mother or father in their lifetime.

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Joshua A. Krisch
2021
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The Geography of Sorrow

"But now we’re asked — and sometimes forced — to carry grief as a solitary burden. And the psyche knows we are not capable of handling grief in isolation." - Francis Weller

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Tim McKee, Francis Weller
2015
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