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Britt Bravo's avatar

Thank you for this beautiful post, Elisa. I'm so very sorry for your loss.

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Paul Manchester's avatar

Thanks for the thoughtful post. The relationship between grief and the arts makes sense... grief is seldom a rational, quantifiable thing. It makes sense that such an intuition based thing like the arts are one of the most effective tools to explore what is happening within us. There was a Rabbi interviewed on a Podcast a while back who spoke of grief coming in waves... it flows in and flows out. And there was something powerful about looking at grief through that lens. Knowing that it will ebb and flow is helpful when I'm at flood stage. An old boyfriend committed suicide back in 1991 and there is a song that he'd written the lyrics out in calligraphy in a letter to me. Whenever I hear that song, I remember the pain, but I also remember the good things as well. Art can reach complicated, nuanced places that are inaccessible otherwise.

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