<div style="color:black;font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks, Marshall.
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<div>Ellie :)<br>
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From: W. J. via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
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Cc: W. J. <synergi@yahoo.com><br>
Sent: Sat, Jan 9, 2021 9:54 am<br>
Subject: [Oe List ...] grief and the New Year<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Good morning from the Left Coast.</div>
<div dir="ltr">When Twitter permanently removed Donald Trump's account yesterday, I became aware that what we are experiencing is a sudden, precipitous 'political death.'</div>
<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
<div dir="ltr">I'm sure that Jack will be up for this, and maybe many more!</div>
<div dir="ltr">Here goes. 'Happy' New Year!</div>
<div dir="ltr">Marshall</div>
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<div class="yiv4572290290ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;"><b>Grief and the New Year</b></div>
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<div class="yiv4572290290ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">being the sensitive and responsive part of society (HRNiebuhr)</div>
<div dir="ltr">awareness that we participate in the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)</div>
<div class="yiv4572290290ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">political grief – sudden loss of a hero/saint: assassination, dethronement, impeachment (Humpty Dumpty effect)</div>
<div class="yiv4572290290ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">social grief – loss of our ability to be physically together in community and denial of our desire for others (Covid-19 pandemic)</div>
<div>economic grief – loss of job, career, means of sustenance, economic fabric (the Great Depression)</div>
<div class="yiv4572290290ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">personal/familial grief – loss an intimate relationship due to death, divorce, miscarriage, or estrangement</div>
<div class="yiv4572290290ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">grief over our awareness of our mortality, anticipatory grief, mass extinction events</div>
<div class="yiv4572290290ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">grief is a natural social process</div>
<div class="yiv4572290290ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">holding on and letting go</div>
<div class="yiv4572290290ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">grief and transformation</div>
<div class="yiv4572290290ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">individual grief and corporate grief</div>
<div>denial of the grief process, inability to grieve, ‘rebound’ relationships</div>
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