Thoughts on Grief, as We Watch Our Systems Crumble

Grief is expansive. It enters when what we knew to be true is no longer. A medical diagnosis, a parent dying, a friend or lover leaving our life. A genocide held up by "democratic" systems who don't listen to the calls for ceasefire on the phones ringing off the hook.

These are all examples of: When what we knew to be true is no longer.

In grief our scaffolding is torn away. The structures we build for safety disappear. We are left alone and naked in the universe without our truth.

How scary, wide, and vast the universe is when the scaffolding is gone and we have to learn new truths, new ways of being. It may feel like we have to earn alone. Oh, the depths grief takes us to.

Grief asks us to have courage. To look into the vastness and write new truths. To be afraid without our scaffolding, wobbly like newborn foals, and move towards an expanded reality anyway.

When we accept the call to be courageous in our grief, we are able to write new paths, new stories, expand into the abyss without scaffolding and structures. With expansion comes liberation.

In the pain of loss, the fear of hte unknown, the challenge of moving forward, grief can set us free.