Baba’s Gone: The Missing Chapter. Part 2
Amollo taught us how to hold pain and transform sorrow into strength. He was our grief alchemist who turned suffering into blessings.
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Alchemy of Grief
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The Alchemy of Brotherhood and Grief
To my brothers, who heard the suppressed cry, The heavy, muffled cough in my voice, When my world collapsed and turned all grey, When the clock of my soul froze…
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The Grudge
While waiting for the hearse of their mutually affluent friend, two former classmates—one principled and judgmental, the other a disheveled confidant—unravel their cherished grievances about the deceased, only to discover the lonely and paranoid man hidden beneath the fortune they both resented.
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The Arms He Ran To: A Lesson from a Wife’s Loss
Lavender’s long red nails stroked Wilson’s hair, her fingers running through it as if trying to stimulate every follicle. She talked to him in a singsong voice, singing a lullaby. This was the vulnerability Wilson had never shown her. Just his demons
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She is Deaded: A Lesson in Speaking Truth to Children
A five-year-old's innocent questions about her grandmother's passing expose the futility of our best-intentioned euphemisms and reveal a surprising path to honest connection.
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Men and Miscarriage: A Lesson in Grief for Unseen Fathers
The "Unseen" Father: A story about a man who meticulously plans for his baby's arrival, only for it to be shattered by miscarriage, and how he struggles to find anyone who acknowledges his specific loss.
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The Most Expensive Coffin: A Lesson In Value
His father believed wood was for the living and coffin making invited misfortune. Yet after this, the coffinmaking only brought prosperity. New contracts with the funeral director funded assistants and a workshop. He became “the celebrity coffinmaker”. Ironically, trees had taught him death long before he started making coffins. He had watched trees die, split logs hollowed by decay and now he mastered balancing beauty with function.
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They just disappeared: A Lesson in Unresolved Loss
As I started work on this grief series, I had to ask, what lesson, the cases of disappearance without a trace held for us. How was I to hold this discomfort that comes with frozen grief?
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Make It Useful: A Lesson in Organ Donation
My ancestors would say,
The body is not yours to keep, it was only a loan,
So take my eyes but see my humanity.
Take my heart but let it beat compassion into your bones.
So tend this vessel, anoint it with struggle.
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The Unseen Grief: A Lesson in Normalcy
This generation, perhaps intuitively, is attempting to rewire their life script. They started on the fringe, morphing into a national collective of shared resolve who refuse to remain unheard and unseen. They cannot unsee what they have seen. In their agitation for agency, they tell us that what we see as normal, is not normal.
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