@hopeward

#Socrates' end.
AIUI apparently his fellow citizens weren't going to let their way of grieving their dead be disrupted.
#SimonCritchley #TheGreeksTragedyAndUs
#Hemlock
#Grieving

This story is heartbreaking & oh, so familiar. There are so many of us. #NeuroDivergent #Autistic #ADHD #LateIdentified #Queer #Traumatised #Grieving @actuallyautistic

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/05/i-thought-it-was-being-gay-that-made-my-life-so-difficult-then-at-50-i-got-an-eye-opening-diagnosis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

invisibile grief
you think you hide it so well
know that I see you

#dailyhaikuprompt - grief

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/i-see-blue-abstract-art-sharon-cummings.html

#grief #grieving #bereavement #death #dying #loss #eye #eyes #blue #abstract #art #artwork #iris #irises #SharonCummingsArt #fediart #mastoart #odd #weird #different #poetry #poet #poem #smallpoems #shortpoem #modern #modernhome #modernart #human #humanart #humanartist #poets #poems #smallpeom #shortpoems #circle #buyintoart

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3734 - The Impossible Realm - More Thoughts on Grief and Nick Cave's Faith, Hope, and Carnage. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-3734.html #Grief #Grieving #Loss #Death #Faith #Hope #NickCave #imagination #writing #Coping

Boing Boing: This site maps Wind Phones across the world. “The website, ‘My Wind Phone,’ is a terrific resource that includes a map of all currently existing wind phones—there are 260 in the United States, 190 internationally, and 14 more coming soon. On the website you can also learn about Itaru Sasaki’s original Phone of the Wind, get pointers about how to create and then list your own […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/04/boing-boing-this-site-maps-wind-phones-across-the-world/

#grieving
The Telephone of the Wind was created in Japan by Itaru Sasaki, while grieving his cousin who died of cancer. He purchased an old-fashioned phone booth and set it up in his garden. He installed an obsolete rotary phone not connected to wires or any "earthly system." Here, Itaru felt a continued connection to his cousin and found comfort and healing amid his grief. Itaru gave his phone booth a name, Kaze No Denwa (風の電話), Telephone of the Wind.
https://www.mywindphone.com/

How Much Goodness Can $20 Buy? Teacher Gives Cash to Students in Annual ‘Kindness Challenge’ to Honor Sister

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-much-goodness-can-20-buy-teacher-gives-cash-to-each-student-in-annual-kindness-challenge-to-honor-her-sister/

TFW you are grieving and you wake up full of energy, do yoga, make yourself a vegetable smoothie, take a nice cleansing ritual shower, anoint in oils... and then you get blindsided by a tiny piece of the thing you are grieving that you haven't processed yet. 😰💔😭❤️‍🩹🥹🥳

#Grieving #Joy #DayToDay #SoulWork

"It's normal that sometimes we feel not normal" - Dr Chia-Ying Chou #grief #grieving #bereavement

Why #Anger Can Be an Ally During the #Grieving Process

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/meaningful-connections/202503/why-anger-can-be-an-ally-during-the-grieving-process

#angry #grief

→ Companies in Mexico embrace AI to resurrect the dead
https://restofworld.org/2024/ai-powered-resurrections-mexico-privacy/

“Using AI to #resurrect the dead has raised #ethical questions elsewhere. In 2020, Jang Ji-sung, a mother of four in South Korea, was virtually reunited with an AI-generated #avatar of her dead 7-year-old daughter. Ji-sung had said this helped her say farewell to her child, but “many #psychologists have come up and said this might, in some cases, make the #grieving process longer,” Rojas said.”

#Mexico #AI #dead

"Thomas Hübl is joined by the founder of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and the developer of #SomaticExperiencing, Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. They discuss how trauma affects our physical bodies, and how the bottom-up approach of Somatic Experiencing helps to heal trauma by addressing the body first. Peter shares fascinating anecdotes from his own personal and professional history and explains how trauma is transmitted through generations, along with important information about survival and spirituality.

He and Thomas focus on connection as a crucial, if not THE most crucial element of #trauma healing, and how #grieving and witnessing pain together can bridge massive cultural divides."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOaK-6yJwpQ

https://pointofrelationpodcast.com/podcast/peter-levine-healing-through-connection/

I have an urge to call my father to talk. Alas.. never more..

#grieving

A quotation from Dante

     “Why linger here, my soul?
The torments you will have to suffer here
Upon this earth which even now you hate,
Weigh heavily upon my fearful mind.”
Then calling upon death,
As I would call on lovely, soothing peace,
I say: “Come to me,” with such yearning love
That I am jealous of whoever dies.
 
     [«Anima mia, ché non ten vai?
ché li tormenti che tu porterai
nel secol, che t’è già tanto noioso,
mi fan pensoso di paura forte».
Ond’io chiamo la Morte,
come soave e dolce mio riposo;
e dico «Vieni a me» con tanto amore,
che sono astioso di chiunque more.]

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian poet
La Vita Nuova [Vita Nova; New Life], ch. 33 (c. 1294, pub. 1576) [tr. Musa (1971)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet…

#quote #quotes #quotation #bereaved #death #grief #grieving #mourning

Loss is an unfortunate part of life; and grief and love are not mutually exclusive. We grieve deeply because we were brave enough to love deeply. I know it hurts. I know you will never “get over it”, but you will get through this! #grief #grieving #healing #loss #love #encouragement #hope

He would often sit and think about all the things that could have been. #grickledoodle #ghosts #grieving #horror #sad #cartoon #art #drawing #death #funny

At the music lesson with my youngest. I told her I don't wanna go in, I don't want to socialize. It's already 3 persons I had to talk to, and 2 more..

#grieving

"The more recent the death, the more impactful for our body. In fact, epidemiologist Elizabeth Mostofsky and cardiologist Geoffrey Tofler
studied people who had heart attacks (including nonfatal ones) and discovered that a heart attack was twenty-one times more likely to happen in the first twenty-four hours after the death of their loved one, compared to any other day in their life. Twenty-one times more likely. The risk on that first day is even higher when our loss feels moderately or extremely meaningful, pointing out that the psychological aspect of grief contributes to our medical outcome.

On each subsequent day after the loss, our risk of a heart attack decreases."

Mary-Frances O'Connor: The #Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing

We might not be super active today.

It’s February 5th here, the day our dad, Xavier, died, nine years ago. I woke up a few hours ago, blinked, realized what day it was, thought about all the bullshit going on in the world, thought “Nope”, and went right the fuck back to sleep for another several hours.

Xavier was known for both hibernating through the winters, trying his damnedest to get me to rest, and treating himself and everyone he loved. I think this is what he would have wanted.

Sláinte, Dad. This day of rest is for you. I’m trying. I really am.

-Allēna

#chronicFatigue #ComplexGrief #Dad #grief #grieving #loss #traumaversary #Xavier