Grief Grove - November 2024 - Deep listening to the songs of the heart

Come to rest your sorrows seasonally, held by Earth, community, and ceremony.

Interweaving the language of wild ritual, group ceremony, council sharing practice, and contemplative practices on the land, we will create a community container to mutually support and witness each other as we move into the sacred grounds of grief and love.

On-land/indoor gathering, Sundays 10am-5pm, once a season, ongoing yearly, on beautiful Cedar Song land, nestled in parks and visited by a creek.

Ground for this work

SAFE CONTAINER FOR EXPRESSION           

HELD BY THE LAND           

NURTURED BY COMMUNITY

What to expect:

• Group ceremony and wild ritual
• Contemplative practices on the land
• Council sharing practice

The Peace of Wild Things

By Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Come to rest your sorrows seasonally, held by earth, community, and ceremony.

We might hold the wish that we, too, “come into the peace of wild things”.