Clare Saxon GhauriMy daughter turned 5 last week. I became collapse aware when pregnant with her and have been living each day as if it’s one of my last for 5 years. Millions have since died. Grief comes in cycles. Nothing really helps. Solidarity with all those parenting, or not, in 2023. Love is all we have. 💗
Ed Suominen@cle Grieving usually happens with a fixed event; someone dies, a relationship ends, a house burns down. You have something precious, and then you don’t, and you have to process that and try to move on.
It’s different when it’s an entire planet. The grief never quite ends. I mourned the imminent loss of the corals I’d snorkeled among. Now I am mourning the silence of my woods and the absence of the 20 kinds of birdsong I used to love hearing.
It’s one long stretch of grief now until I die.