Grief and Loss

The Hero's Journey provides a narrative structure through which the profound disorientation of loss can be understood not as failure, but as the difficult process of learning to inhabit a life whose old map no longer describes the territory.

Grief refuses to stay inside the neat emotional categories we try to impose upon it. Music offers something unusual. It doesn’t ask us to explain what we are feeling. It simply gives those feelings somewhere to go. Many bereaved people instinctively understand this. Some create playlists filled with songs that remind them of the person who died.

Exploration of death themes in diverse world myths.

April missive about why we bury the dead.

What happens to us physically and mentally when death becomes real

Art does not arrive after loss as a gentle comfort. It appears when the opposition becomes unbearable. When presence turns into absence. When life collides with death. When love no longer has a living recipient.