These have been sad weeks and grief at many levels swirls in our city. Grief for lost loved ones, for homes and businesses, for jobs and friends who have moved away. Anne Deveson in her book Resilience says
“I think we don’t fully understand or appreciate how diverse grief is. You fall in love in a thousand ways, and you grieve in a thousand ways” (quoted on p259).
She goes on to say - “Grief never leaves you, I once heard writer V.S. Naipaul say, ‘but it mutates into a deepening awareness of the greater capacity for love, and an extra-ordinary awareness of the interconnectedness of life’.(p268)”
