Who Gets to Cry?

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April 1, 2019 a project of ServiceSpace Even in the midst of suffering and grieving, people rally around one another, help where they can, open their arms and their homes to those who have lost even more. - Trebbe Johnson - Who Gets to Cry? Climate change is destroying many places we love points out Trebbe Johnson, and while some of us turn away from admitting this, others are filled with sorrow. But here's what's most difficult: "Many of us are simply afraid that if we allow ourselves to wade, even for a moment, into the feelings of sadness for the living world that lap at the edge of our consciousness, we will find ourselves pulled so ruthlessly into grief and despair that we will never emerge." So how to grieve wisely and honestly? { read more } Be The Change Johnson says that "Many indigenous cultures had rituals for acknowledging and making reparations for the collective shame of being human and having to take the lives of nonhuman beings and plants." Find a way to acknowledge your share of the "shame of being human," and, like the Navajo, apologize to the plants and animals you eat and the world we are all complicit in destroying. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News What It Means to Hold Space & 8 Tips to Do it Well One Teacher's Brilliant response to Columbine Are You Walking Through Life in an Underslept State? People Helped You Whether You Knew It Or Not When Someone Threw Coffee at My Face The Moment I Knew Gratitude is the Answer to Every Question 7 Simple Ways to Cultivate Comfort Mark Nepo: Where To Now? DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 245,357 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More