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

[Linda and Milan Hamilton]

Exactly Marshall ! Milan

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> On Jan 9, 2021, at 7:54 AM, W. J. via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> 
> 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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