- Nov 2023
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Die New York Times hat Wissenschaftler:innen portraitiert und interviewt, die Ökosysteme und Arten erforschen, die die globale Erhitzung mit Auslöschung bedroht: Dokumente der Trauer, der Resignation und der Wut. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/magazine/extinction-species-scientists-climate-change.html
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- Oct 2023
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www.lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk
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To the outside world Mary Pringle was the model of a Victorian wife and mother, but every morning, after she had waved her husband off to work at the War Office, she went into her garden to measure the night’s rainfall via an eclectic range of homemade gauges. She then returned indoors to collect quotations for the dictionary from 17th-century biblical commentaries. (She appears in a chapter called ‘R for Rain Collectors’.) Her enthusiasms, recorded in Murray’s address book, provide a glimpse of the way clever Victorian women, barred from the worlds of education and work, sought alternative expressions of endeavour and community in work for the OED. Pringle’s story also reveals, in the sudden silence of its ending, other forms of female experience. In 1884 her son died, and overnight she stopped collecting both rain and words, fading back into history.
loss of the quotidien as the result of grief
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- Jun 2023
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byui.instructure.com byui.instructure.com
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How has your life been blessed by living the Gospel and how has it sanctified you?
Hey Naomi! I must say your insights and reminders here are powerful!
To address your question, I really do believe that the gospel of Jesus Christ is a message of good news. While we learn from the scriptures that the gospel is the gospel of repentance ("teach nothing but repentance" - Doctrine and Covenants 6:9, 11:9) , it essentially just means that we focus on preaching the gospel "which is the gospel of repentance and salvation through the mercy, grace and merits of the Lord Jesus Christ." That is good news: that there is salvation, mercy and grace for all mankind!
- Lately, I feel that I've been surrounded by numerous deaths and illnesses in past two years. Grief has really taught me the impermanence of everything in our fallen world. But the more prominent feeling I've been getting is how lovely it is that I possess the knowledge of the plan of salvation. It brings me great comfort our parting in this life is not the end. This mortality is only a fleeting moment in our eternal lives.
This is Elder Hugo Montoya in his talk, The Eternal Principle of Love:
On the third day He was resurrected. The tomb is empty; He stands at the right hand of His Father. They hope we will choose to keep our covenants and return to Their presence. This second estate is not our final estate; we do not belong to this earthly home, but rather we are eternal beings living temporary experiences.
- Another thing the gospel of Jesus Christ has taught me is that our time here on Earth is to become the person who we will become for eternity. When we meet Jesus Christ in His second coming and face the final judgment, the essence of who we are in that moment will shape our eternal existence. This understanding holds immense power in that each day the Lord gives me another chance to live and be with my family, I choose to improve upon myself, to surpass the person I was yesterday, so that one day, I may reach a state of self-acceptance, forgiveness for my flaws, love for all my cherished ones in the manner that Jesus loves them, and a deep sense of peace and comfort in the presence of my Heavenly Father.
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- Jan 2022
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www.psychiatrictimes.com www.psychiatrictimes.com
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Differentiating PGD from MDD
differentiating PGD from MDD
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Multiple factors appear to increase the risk of PGD, including depression, anxiety disorders, current substance use/abuse, multiple losses, particularly stressful circumstances surrounding the death, lack of social supports, uncertainty about the death, and the unavailability of usual mourning rituals.
depression, anxiety disorders, current substance use/abuse, multiple losses, particularly stressful circumstances surrounding the death, lack of social supports, uncertainty about the death, the unavailability of usual mourning rituals
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lasts well beyond the period expected by social and cultural norms (6 months in ICD-11 and 1 year in DSM-5-TR)
1 year in DSM-5-TR
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www.uptodate.com www.uptodate.com
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response to bereavement
Grief is the natural response to bereavement, and includes thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and physiologic reactions.
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- Aug 2021
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Price, A. (2021). Commentary: My pandemic grief and the Japanese art of kintsugi. BMJ, n1906. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1906
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- Jun 2021
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Bahrampour, T. (n.d.). For those who lost loved ones to covid, there is no return to normal. Washington Post. Retrieved June 9, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/covid-widows-reopening/2021/06/07/7a55f9e6-c3bc-11eb-8c18-fd53a628b992_story.html
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- Apr 2021
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news.westernu.ca news.westernu.ca
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Western News—Nearly 40,000 kids in the U.S. who lost a parent to COVID-19 need immediate support. (2021, April 5). Western News. https://news.westernu.ca/2021/04/covid-19-parent-loss/
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Kidman, R., Margolis, R., Smith-Greenaway, E., & Verdery, A. M. (n.d.). Opinion | Covid-19 has killed the parents of thousands of children. We must support them. Washington Post. Retrieved 7 April 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/05/how-support-children-who-lost-parents-covid-19/
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jamanetwork.com jamanetwork.com
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Kidman, R., Margolis, R., Smith-Greenaway, E., & Verdery, A. M. (2021). Estimates and Projections of COVID-19 and Parental Death in the US. JAMA Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.0161
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- Mar 2021
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www.wired.com www.wired.com
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Vaccine FOMO Is Real. Here’s How to Deal With It. (n.d.). Wired. Retrieved 29 March 2021, from https://www.wired.com/story/vaccine-fomo-how-to-wait-tips/
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www.newscientist.com www.newscientist.com
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Klein, A. (n.d.). Grief over covid-19 deaths may be unusually severe and long-lasting. New Scientist. Retrieved July 9, 2020, from https://www.newscientist.com/article/2248095-grief-over-covid-19-deaths-may-be-unusually-severe-and-long-lasting/
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- Oct 2020
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icla2020b.jonreeve.com icla2020b.jonreeve.com
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“I can’t say what I was going to say, Jug, because I’ve forgotten what it was... that I was going to say.”
I had to quickly google if Mansfield had lost someone in her life because she encapsulates through these short stories the intricacies of feelings that come with grief—where there is really never a right word to describe how one feels when losing someone. Thus, the only thing left to do is to be present for each other without needing to say anything or explain anything. I found out that Mansfield lost her brother during the Great War.
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- Jun 2020
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www.thecut.com www.thecut.com
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Chow, K. (2020, May 6). There’s No Way to Prepare for Grief. The Cut. https://www.thecut.com/2020/05/theres-no-way-to-prepare-for-grief.html
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- May 2020
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Pinsker, J. (2020, May 1). All the Things We Have to Mourn Now. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/05/grief-mourning-death-pandemic/610933/
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- Sep 2019
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rampages.us rampages.us
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\7herethere is leisure for fiction, there is little grief.
This quote jumped out at me. Basically, if you have enough free time that you can spend it on something like writing, how hard can your life really be?
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- May 2019
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onbeing.org onbeing.org
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Perception matters very much, and it opens the window for how you would proceed toward resilience and strength.
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Another poet, John Keats, recommends in his letters to a young poet that he develop a capability for living with unanswered questions. Keats calls this ‘negative capability,’ and this is what it takes to live with loved ones gone missing. This is also the way for the rest of us to stop pressuring these families to find closure.” Ms. Boss: Yes. We just have to stop pressuring people to get over it. It’s cruel, actually, to do that.
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“closure” is a terrible word in human relationships. Once you’ve become attached to somebody, love them, care about them — when they’re lost, you still care about them.
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But my point is, that too is a meaning. The fact that it’s meaningless is a meaning, and it always will be meaningless.
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I think we could help each other in society to learn how to speak to people who have missing loved ones. I think it’s perfectly good to ask them, “How long has it been?” Because they want to tell you how long it’s been, and sometimes it’s been decades.
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“Do you remember that story I told you about my husband oversleeping and that it was my fault?” I said, “Yes, I remember.” And she said, “Well, he always set the alarm clock. I realized that, finally. It wasn’t my fault. He just wanted another hour to be with us.”
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Most of the caregivers I have met and studied and treated are not depressed; they’re sad. They’re grieving. This should be normalized. Sadness is treated with human connection.
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Well, we now know that this is not true and that human beings live with grief and, in fact, are able to live with grief.
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That’s part, again, of a culture of mastery, a culture of problem solving and wanting to move on with things.
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We come from culture in this country of, I think, mastery orientation. We like to solve problems. We’re not comfortable with unanswered questions, and this is full of unanswered questions.
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It’s a more Eastern idea that suffering is part of life.
Note to self: try to find some good citation/literature on this
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But, yes, the only way to live with ambiguous loss is to hold two opposing ideas in your mind at the same time.
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- May 2015
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www.alasdairroberts.com www.alasdairroberts.com
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Lethe (Leith)
The River Lethe was one of the rivers of Hades in Greek mythology. Exposure to its waters was held to lead to loss of memory, or, more intriguingly, a state of "unmindfulness" and oblivion. From this origin, it has re-appeared throughout western culture, from Dante to Tony Banks's first solo album (River Lethe in popular culture, Wikipedia).
By providing the alternative spelling of Leith, Alasdair Roberts 'doubles' this meaning with the Water of Leith, a river that runs through Edinburgh, and co-locates ancient Greek and contemporary Scots mythology.
The idea of eternal return is bound up with memory, with cultures being compelled to repeat and confront the missteps of the past. So the oblivion of forgetfulness provided by the endless Lethe provides a form of antidote or escape.
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my sermons seven
In interview with Tyler Wilcox in 2009, Alasdair Roberts referred to the
specifically Jungian references to the "sermons seven" and mandalas... it's like a quest song against conflict and towards individuation. I know a lot of people with strong political or religious convictions whose musical and artistic practice is guided by that – in some ways I envy that kind of certitude, but I suppose my thing is always about flexibility, multiplicity, confusion wanting to reflect the turmoil of reality... always trying to remember that the oar in the ocean is a winnowing fan on dry land.'
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