<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Exactly Marshall ! Milan<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 9, 2021, at 7:54 AM, W. J. via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Good morning from the Left Coast.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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" data-setdir="false">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" data-setdir="false">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" data-setdir="false">I'm sure that Jack will be up for this, and maybe many more!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Here goes. 'Happy' New Year!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Marshall</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><p class="ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;"><b>Grief and the New Year</b></p><p class="ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;"> </p><p class="ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;">being the sensitive and responsive part of society (HRNiebuhr)</p><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">awareness that we participate in the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)</div><p class="ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;">political grief – sudden loss of a hero/saint: assassination, dethronement, impeachment (Humpty Dumpty effect)</p><p class="ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" 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)</p><div>economic grief – loss of job, career, means of sustenance, economic fabric (the Great Depression)</div><p class="ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;">personal/familial grief – loss an intimate relationship due to death, divorce, miscarriage, or estrangement</p><p class="ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;">grief over our awareness of our mortality, anticipatory grief, mass extinction events</p><p class="ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;">grief is a natural social process</p><p class="ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;">holding on and letting go</p><p class="ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;">grief and transformation</p><p class="ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium;">individual grief and corporate grief</p><div>denial of the grief process, inability to grieve, ‘rebound’ relationships</div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> </div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>OE mailing list</span><br><span>OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</span><br><span>http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>