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If it was complicated, the grief is allowed to be complicated. Blessings and wounds can come from the same hands.
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REMEMBER · III

Lesson 29 of LII · the REMEMBER course
The idea behind this card — The complicated blessing

If it was complicated, the grief is allowed to be complicated. Blessings and wounds can come from the same hands.

REMEMBER — The communion — names, tables, ancestors, the long love

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The practice

name both on paper: what was — as it actually went — and what never got to be. Mourn the second one on purpose. Nobody sends flowers for it, but the old laments always made room.

Where this idea comes from

  • Kenneth Doka — disenfranchised grief

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TEND · III  ·  GROUND · III  ·  FEEL · III

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