Five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance

There isn’t any safety for citizens of a troubled time. Being able to labor on behalf of a troubled time is a gift. There is no safety and there is none required and you must proceed free of the allegation that you have to know that things are going to work out before you put your pedal in the water...so I will see you on the beach.

Everything that goes mainstream is called normal. The amazing power of normalcy in a democracy is its capacity to absorb everything that challenges it and turn it into part of itself.

If you are lucky you become less stranger to yourself but more strange as a consequence of that.

It is not human to fear death.

The loss of being at home has become part of our identity.

Life is mostly learning how to lose. The longer you live, the more you do without. The more people, the more circumstances, the more health, the more ability…

It’s our limitations that render humanity to us. It’s our limitations that give us the chance to be human.

Grief is not a feeling. Grief is not how you feel, grief is what you do. Grief is a skill. And the twin of grief as a skill of life is the skill of being able to praise or love life. Which means whenever you find one authentically done, the other is very close at hand. Grief and praise of life, side by side.

We can’t anymore say that we live in a free society with freedom of choice and freedom of speech. These ideas are becoming symbolic, not practical and applicable.