#Francis Weller

[scorpiosonder]

“Grief is subversive, undermining quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small.”

— Francis Weller

#Francis weller #beautiful words #grief #writers and poets #quotes

[innervoiceartblog]

"We were not meant to live shallow lives, pocked by meaningless routines and the secondary satisfactions of happy hour. We are the inheritors of an amazing lineage, rippling with memories of life lived intimately with bison and gazelle, raven and the night sky. We are designed to encounter this life with amazement and wonder, not resignation and endurance. This is at the very heart of our grief and sorrow. The dream of full-throated living, woven into our very being, has often been forgotten and neglected, replaced by a societal fiction of productivity and material gain. No wonder we seek distractions. Every sorrow we carry extends from the absence of what we require to stay engaged in this one wild and precious life".

~ Francis Weller

#Francis Weller #life #love #heart and soul #nature

[fenblight]

#ik this is a wc blog but #good books r good books #ocean vuong #julia samuel #tracy kidder #christine de pizan #francis weller #renato rosaldo #grief #love #lgbt books #literature #books #book recommendations

[withinthesplendor]

Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life-force.... It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness. Grief is alive, wild, untamed and cannot be domesticated. It resists the demands to remain passive and still. We move in jangled, unsettled, and riotous ways when grief takes hold of us. It is truly an emotion that rises from the soul. ~ Francis Weller

Jowie Lim Art

#quotes #writers #francis weller #grief #art #artwork #painting #jowie lim

[juliansummerhayes]

Francis Weller on Grief (2013)

#youtube #francis weller

[ag-updates-and-archives]

Anthony Green performs "Don't Dance at Nomad Supply Co [youtube]

nomad_supply_co // in honor of the first day of @.anthonygreen666 Anthony Green’s “Boom.Done.” Tour we bring you “Don’t Dance” live at Nomad// Filmed by @.a.b.x.k // sound recording by @.sir_eltonjawn and @.frankcichonski // mixing by @.sir_eltonjawn // video edited by @.visuwills // link to the YouTube edit in stories // [instagram]

both posted march 3, 2024

#anthony green #alex kinter #keith roberts #francis chichonski #visuwills #< wills weller?

[stephiehung]

“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. How much sorrow can I hold? That’s how much gratitude I can give. If I carry only grief, I’ll bend toward cynicism and despair. If I have only gratitude, I’ll become saccharine and won’t develop much compassion for other people’s suffering. Grief keeps the heart fluid and soft, which helps make compassion possible.”

― Francis Ward Weller

#grief #gratitude #compassion #feelings #quote #weller #francis ward weller

[fairydrowning]

"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close."

– Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love."

– Hilary Stanton Zunin

#on grief #grief poem #stages of grief #dark academia #light academia #excerpts #fragments #poetry #books & libraries #romanticism #dark academism #words #spilled ink #chaotic academia #chaotic aesthetic #spilled thoughts

[radical-revolution]

"The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them."

Francis Ward Weller

[bozkirveyagmur]

Büyük acılar karşısında bizi donmaktan kurtaran şey yasın kendisidir. Travma soğuktur, dondurur. Yası ağırlamaksa ısıtır, iyileştirir.

Francis weller

[21stcenturysucks]

"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close."

- Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

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[juliansummerhayes]

"It is challenging to honor the descent in a culture that primary values the ascent. We like things rising—stock markets, the GDP, profit margins. We get anxious when things go down. Even within psychology, there is a premise that is biased toward improvement, always getting better, rising above our troubles. We hold dear concepts like progress and integration. These are fine in and of themselves, but it is not the way psyche works. Psyche, we must remember, was shaped by and is rooted in the foundations of nature. As such, psyche also experiences times of decay and death, of stopping, regression, and being still. Much happens in these times that deepen the soul. When all we are shown is the imagery of ascent, we are left to interpret the times of descent as pathological; we feel that we are somehow failing. As poet and author Robert Bly wryly noted, “How can we get a look at the cinders side of things when the society is determined to create a world of shopping malls and entertainment complexes in which we are made to believe that there is no death, disfigurement, illness, insanity, lethargy, or misery? Disneyland means ‘no ashes.’" —Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

#francis weller

[eyesinmytears]

Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close.

- Francis Weller

[flashmaddox]

(De izquierda a derecha, de arriba hacia abajo) Adam Clayton, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof, Steve Norman, Chris Cross, John Taylor, Paul Young, Tony Hardley, Glenn Gregory, Simon LeBon, Simon Crowe, Marilyn, Keren, Martin Kemp, Jody Watley, Bono, Paul Weller, James Taylor, Peter Blake, George Michael, Midge Ure, Martin Ware, John Kaeble, Gary Kemp, Roger Taylor, Sarah, Siobhan, Peter Briquette, Francis Rossi, Robert "Kool" Bell, Dennis Thomas, Andy Taylor, Jon Mass, Sting, Rick Parfitt, Nick Rhodes, Johnny Fingers (en CDMX) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmAIhiwOi-wf3NaOPlI1up0Ygyfi92OMHlbLps0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[njuakvzofwuar]

Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life-force.... It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness. Grief is alive, wild, untamed and cannot be domesticated. It resists the demands to remain passive and still. We move in jangled, unsettled, and riotous ways when grief takes hold of us. It is truly an emotion that rises from the soul.

~ Francis Weller: https://www.francisweller.net/

[radical-revolution]

Luna Moon Rising by Mara Friedman

Martín Prechtel writes: "Every individual in the world, regardless of cultural background or race, has an indigenous soul struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile environment created by that individual’s mind."

Francis Weller writes: "The indigenous soul lives close to the ground, to moss, river and loon. It moves in springs and wind, is close to the breath of coyotes. It is scratched on rock walls around the planet, is seen dancing around firelight and is heard in stories told under the canopy of stars. The indigenous soul is the thread of our humanness woven inextricably with the world. Where all things meet and exchange the vitality that is life, there is soul."

Weller continues: "The recovery of the indigenous soul is imperative. We are in serious trouble as a people. Nearly every biological system is in peril: our watersheds, oceans and topsoil are experiencing rapid deterioration. We face a future that will be seriously impacted by radical changes in our climate. We are also witnessing the daily loss of the wild as we encroach ever further into wetlands and forests. We have forgotten our place in the world. And this woe is not confined to us alone; it extends to the others with whom we share this world. Many species find themselves threatened by these changes: grizzlies, blue fin tuna, spotted owls, coral reefs, Atlantic salmon, autumn buttercup, golden-cheeked wood warbler, Baker’s cypress. This list goes on and on. There are 2,269 endangered species in the United States alone. They are caught in a cascading net of sorrows, powerless to change or adapt. We must reconnect with this ancient ground of being that is our indigenous soul and recall that we are all of the earth."

Martín Prechtel likes to incant a blessing common among the Tzutujil Indians of Guatemala: “Be blessed with long life, honey in the heart, no evil, and thirteen thank you’s.”