October 18th | 7:15pm-8:45pm

@ Harmonist Sanctuary

Death is not the only synonym for grief. Transition, loneliness, loss, disappointment, weariness all hold hands with grief. My heartbreak and outrage for Nolan Wells is not only because of the loss of his sweet, young life but it’s also heartbreak and outrage for the safety that I’m not guaranteed, for the world that I know me and my people deserve, for the young Black people who are being shown that there are a large number of people out here who see them as disposable. It’s a similar feeling that I get when I think of Jane Doe. It’s a similar feeling that I get when I sit with my climate anxiety and deep concern for our descendants. When I talk with people about the pain of their parents not being the parents that they needed when they were little. That I too feel when those that I love the most can’t see me fully all of the time. It’s pervasive. My friend MK said to me that every day we are alive, we are actively dying. And that really impacted me. Ram Dass says “we are all just walking each other home”. And if that is true, that death exists with living, and grief exists with joy, then let us at least walk together in it.

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