People Who Need People

by | Mar 3, 2012 | Grieving, the Big Body

We see it in their cloudy bloodshot eyes as they stand in the midst of the rubble that used to be their homes, shops, and schools. A thief has come in the night and stolen all objects that connect them to their past. This devastation now overwhelming their futures....

Faithful Teachers Till and Beyond the End

by | May 1, 2011 | Grieving, Rituals

Friends from Texas invited me to attend a memorial for their mother, a retired school principal, who had died a few months earlier. If they gave me details, I didn’t note them, only that the service would be at the Heinz Chapel on the U. of Pittsburgh campus on Friday...

On Communal Grieving

by | Jan 21, 2011 | Grieving, Rituals

“Shake it out,” we say in InterPlay. “Shake out your right hand.” “Shake out your left hand.” “Shake out both hands.” “Shake out your voice, and while you’re at it, shake out what you’re sitting on.” This is our practice because...

A Meditation for Grieving

by | May 28, 2010 | Grieving, Meditations

In a situation where we are experiencing loss or the threat of loss, there is a strong need to change our state of consciousness, to spend some time in an altered state of consciousness. Don’t worry if you do not have a formal meditation practice. I’d like to share...

Singing To Convince Yourself

by | May 28, 2010 | Grieving, Songs

There are many principles we would like to believe, many truths we would like to embody. And as lovers of African American spirituals, known as Sorrow Songs, can attest, the capacity of singing to facilitate change in one’s emotional state is enormous. And as in the...

TOUGH INTO TRIUMPH

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