In today's episode, I'm sharing something I have been carrying for a long time and have not really known how to talk about, the loss of a friendship that was a main character in my life for decades, and the strange, unnamed ache of grieving someone who has not gone away in a way our culture knows how to recognize.
Francis Weller writes in The Wild Edge of Sorrow that grief was his gateway back into the breathing and animate world, that it was through the dark waters of grief that he came to touch his unlived life, and that there is some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive.
Today's episode is about the quiet grief of friendships that have ended, the language and ritual we have never been given for that kind of loss, and the spiritual practice of giving it the full place it deserves.
Question to carry into your day:
What friendship grief have you been carrying without permission to mourn?
If this episode reached you, I would so love to hear from you. Write me at [email protected] and tell me about the friendship grief you have been carrying. I read every one.
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