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Jul 18, 2023

"What is there to do when people die -- people so dear and rare -- but bring them back by remembering?

" --May Sarton

The Medicine of Memory

"Every life is like a day. We begin the night before and, in the darkness, we are formed as a word that strikes a spark. This spark lands like a seed coming to the ground in the soul of the womb. Then miraculous growth pulses like wildfirean unstoppable explosion of unimaginable geniusthe exponential roar of universal proportion. Every life well-lived holds in its hearts core the knowing that all life is formed from the dust and back to dust disintegrates. We wake up from the sleep of the cosmos and, in the evening, we prepare to return to that great, mysterious darkness once more. The trinity of dying, death, and grief is part of one great movement, each a particular primary color on the spectrum of passing back into the night from where we came." Singer, composer and leadership coach Owen O'Suilleabhain shares more in this moving meditation on memory, grief, healing and regeneration.