Thank you for sharing your reflections and readings on grief, Jessica. You are adding such layers of deep understanding that go far beyond Kubler-Ross’ stages in a really profound way. In your writing about Tuan, I hear about hope through what we learn about the inverse, “lost possibilities”. And I hear about core human needs like companionship, being in relation to others, kinship, human continuance. Maybe those are part of Kessler’s “meaning-making” stage.
This is so true and would occur to me often when you spoke about the story in 'Offerings' - with COVID, wars, natural disasters, people all over are experiencing multi-dimensional grief.
"I’ve been wondering if what made Tuan Mac Cairill’s story so enticing to me back in 2020 was the wide range of losses he suffered—loss of loved ones, loss of place, loss of faith, loss of future, loss of youth and certain bodily abilities—as well as the vastly diverse ways that he grieved them."
I ended up spending hours reading the responses to the grief survey you linked, and wrote a poem based on the words and phrases I found there. Thank you for inspiring this creative work! https://hannaheve.substack.com/p/the-grief-survey
Thank you for sharing your reflections and readings on grief, Jessica. You are adding such layers of deep understanding that go far beyond Kubler-Ross’ stages in a really profound way. In your writing about Tuan, I hear about hope through what we learn about the inverse, “lost possibilities”. And I hear about core human needs like companionship, being in relation to others, kinship, human continuance. Maybe those are part of Kessler’s “meaning-making” stage.
This is so true and would occur to me often when you spoke about the story in 'Offerings' - with COVID, wars, natural disasters, people all over are experiencing multi-dimensional grief.
"I’ve been wondering if what made Tuan Mac Cairill’s story so enticing to me back in 2020 was the wide range of losses he suffered—loss of loved ones, loss of place, loss of faith, loss of future, loss of youth and certain bodily abilities—as well as the vastly diverse ways that he grieved them."
I ended up spending hours reading the responses to the grief survey you linked, and wrote a poem based on the words and phrases I found there. Thank you for inspiring this creative work! https://hannaheve.substack.com/p/the-grief-survey