Re: leaving rocks in cemeteries, in Judaism (at least in my Argentine family’s Jewish tradition), we leave rocks instead of flowers because of their permanence-- rocks won’t perish like flowers will
"Memory is an act of holding, an act of sifting through what remains."
I am currently experiencing dying with some loved ones in my life and learning to understand the community of grieving and the gratefulness, the love, the memories and oh my goodness the Stuff!
Yes, what will happen to all those plastic purses?
Considering the incomprehensibility that any of us -- or anything at all -- should exist, isn’t our fundamental response to the void that of gratitude?
We can leave behind handfuls of trinkets and also lives changed for the better. Accumulation and transformation.
So much here to think about and weep over and rejoice in; thank you.
Re: leaving rocks in cemeteries, in Judaism (at least in my Argentine family’s Jewish tradition), we leave rocks instead of flowers because of their permanence-- rocks won’t perish like flowers will
"Memory is an act of holding, an act of sifting through what remains."
I am currently experiencing dying with some loved ones in my life and learning to understand the community of grieving and the gratefulness, the love, the memories and oh my goodness the Stuff!
Yes, what will happen to all those plastic purses?
I love this so much. I just moved after 30+ years. Quite a process, holding on and letting go. Thank you so much for your words...
All very wabi-sabi.
“While we pass through, we leave so much behind.”
Considering the incomprehensibility that any of us -- or anything at all -- should exist, isn’t our fundamental response to the void that of gratitude?
We can leave behind handfuls of trinkets and also lives changed for the better. Accumulation and transformation.
So much here to think about and weep over and rejoice in; thank you.