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May 22, 2020
"Make yourself fierce; break in. And then your great transforming will happen to me And my great grief cry will happen to you." --Rainer Maria Rilke
Grieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
"In this excerpt from the new anthology 'A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Times,' journalist Dahr Jamail describes how Macy and her work helped him survive profound war trauma and climate grief. Macy, a scholar and teacher of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology, is the author of 13 books and a respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology. She originated The Work That Reconnects, a framework and methodology for personal and social change. It is influential work that, in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, helps people transform despair and apathy into constructive, collaborative action."
BE THE CHANGE
What are you grieving in this period? What might this grief be summoning you towards? For more, read this beautiful piece on "The Geography of Sorrow". More ...
