[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] grief and the New Year

[Beret Griffith]

Deep sadness at the depth of the divisions in this country.
Beret

On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 2:06 PM Ann Jaecks via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Thank you for putting this into words..
> Ann Jaecks
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 10:33 AM Ellie Stock via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Marshall.
>>
>> Ellie :)
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: W. J. via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> Cc: W. J. <synergi at yahoo.com>
>> Sent: Sat, Jan 9, 2021 9:54 am
>> Subject: [Oe List ...] grief and the New Year
>>
>> Good morning from the Left Coast.
>> When Twitter permanently removed Donald Trump's account yesterday, I
>> became aware that what we are experiencing is a sudden, precipitous
>> 'political death.'
>> What I think we're all experiencing, to some degree, is the 'layering' of
>> many forms of personal and corporate grief. Simultaneously. So that
>> focusing on one layer can obscure the others.
>> So, rather than expound on grief like a theological expert, I'm just
>> offering an outline of my thoughts, so that each of us can build upon them
>> or change them in true 'corporate mind' fashion.
>> I'm sure that Jack will be up for this, and maybe many more!
>> Here goes. 'Happy' New Year!
>> Marshall
>>
>> *Grief and the New Year*
>>
>> being the sensitive and responsive part of society (HRNiebuhr)
>> awareness that we participate in the stages of grief: denial, anger,
>> bargaining, depression, acceptance (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
>> political grief – sudden loss of a hero/saint: assassination,
>> dethronement, impeachment (Humpty Dumpty effect)
>> social grief – loss of our ability to be physically together in community
>> and denial of our desire for others (Covid-19 pandemic)
>> economic grief – loss of job, career, means of sustenance, economic
>> fabric (the Great Depression)
>> personal/familial grief – loss an intimate relationship due to death,
>> divorce, miscarriage, or estrangement
>> grief over our awareness of our mortality, anticipatory grief, mass
>> extinction events
>> grief is a natural social process
>> holding on and letting go
>> grief and transformation
>> individual grief and corporate grief
>> denial of the grief process, inability to grieve, ‘rebound’ relationships
>>
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