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Beginner's Heart
ashes to ashes… we all fall down ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
Two friends who attend my church — or at least what I think of as ‘my’ church, despite not attending it w/ any degree of frequency! — lost their nephew today. Lost him in a pool of dark red blood on a white concrete driveway, the victim of a drive-by shooting. Yesterday his father sat…
grief, tragedy, & holding each other in the light ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
Sometimes, the heart is incapable of filling futher. It can’t even break, it’s so full. The Quakers, when things are very hard, hold you in the light. And for each of us, ‘the light’ may be different. But this week, I am trying hard to hold the many victims of the Aurora tragedy in the…
death & loss & grief & rites of passage ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
My cousin’s son died this past weekend. Killed instantly, with his best friend, in a tragic car accident. He was 25. A funeral is no celebration of life when the dead are young. Their lives cut short by the snick snick snick of the third sister’s scissors — Atropos, the eldest sister Fate. I dread…
mother love, schadenfreude, & beginner’s heart ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
It’s no secret that I love my students. And even now, when not one of them sits in circle in a classroom w/ me, they remain ‘my students.’ A kind of extended family — almost like nieces & nephews, if not quite as dear. But still very dear. 🙂 So when they hurt, I hurt.…
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