The Hour of Lead (2021) ...
In March 2020, author David Kessler wrote that ‘we’re feeling a number of different griefs. We feel the world has changed, and it has. We know this is temporary, but it doesn’t feel that way, and we realize things will be different. […] The loss of normalcy; the fear of economic toll; the loss of co...
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York St John University
2023
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.25421/yorksj.23925198.v1 https://yorksj.figshare.com/articles/media/The_Hour_of_Lead_2021_/23925198/1 |
| Summary: | In March 2020, author David Kessler wrote that ‘we’re feeling a number of different griefs. We feel the world has changed, and it has. We know this is temporary, but it doesn’t feel that way, and we realize things will be different. […] The loss of normalcy; the fear of economic toll; the loss of connection. This is hitting us and we’re grieving. Collectively. We are not used to this kind of collective grief in the air.’My personal grieving began two years prior to the pandemic. My father died nine months before my son was born; my mother nine months after. I was there when Papa died, but Mom died when I was in a plane somewhere over the North Atlantic. Processing these events, particularly in conjunction with becoming a father myself, has been complicated, drawn-out, and difficult to articulate.If I have learned anything from the last few years, it is that grief is not one thing, but many. Sometimes, grief is a void, an acute awareness that something is missing. Sometimes, grief nauseates and surprises you ... |
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