Incredibly well said. Of course you know I am 100% w/ you in this. I am waiting, impatiently at this point, for those around us who silenced our lament to come to the same conclusions.
The waiting is so heavy and can be so lonely. I am profoundly grateful to have connected with you and other soulful revolutionaries over the last nine months whose hearts are crying out in concert with mine. Much love.
Dear Lauren, as the grandchild of Jewish Zionists who emigrated from Poland and Ukraine to the USA, but myself a humanist UU, this writing resonates with me (I found you through K. W. Bogen on Instagram). Coincidentally, an an expressive therapist/music therapist, I have co-led so far one zoom grief circle for Palestine and other genocides/violence in the world, and I came up with the idea of improvising a sung lament with the participants. Singing, even softly, even reluctantly, even off key or unpracticed, is a very primal human way to heighten and validate emotion.
I had never thought of my incredible grief over the actions of my grandparents in promoting Zionism as a personal moral injury, but that makes so much sense. For I grieve that so many of my extended family think differently. Thank you again.
Thank you so much for sharing, Janna. I’m grateful to be connected through Katie — what a luminous soul! She will be on my podcast next week with Hani Chaabo.
Singing is such a healing expression. What a gift you are offering with the grief circle. Amazing.
Incredibly well said. Of course you know I am 100% w/ you in this. I am waiting, impatiently at this point, for those around us who silenced our lament to come to the same conclusions.
The waiting is so heavy and can be so lonely. I am profoundly grateful to have connected with you and other soulful revolutionaries over the last nine months whose hearts are crying out in concert with mine. Much love.
Dear Lauren, as the grandchild of Jewish Zionists who emigrated from Poland and Ukraine to the USA, but myself a humanist UU, this writing resonates with me (I found you through K. W. Bogen on Instagram). Coincidentally, an an expressive therapist/music therapist, I have co-led so far one zoom grief circle for Palestine and other genocides/violence in the world, and I came up with the idea of improvising a sung lament with the participants. Singing, even softly, even reluctantly, even off key or unpracticed, is a very primal human way to heighten and validate emotion.
I had never thought of my incredible grief over the actions of my grandparents in promoting Zionism as a personal moral injury, but that makes so much sense. For I grieve that so many of my extended family think differently. Thank you again.
Thank you so much for sharing, Janna. I’m grateful to be connected through Katie — what a luminous soul! She will be on my podcast next week with Hani Chaabo.
Singing is such a healing expression. What a gift you are offering with the grief circle. Amazing.
I am so glad you are here!