“Living with Ambiguous Loss”
From a workshop at the Exponent II Retreat in Fall 2022. Read by Author My Journey with Ambiguous Loss Death has been on my mind for decades: my undergraduate thesis focused on James Agee’s A Death in the Family; one of my doctoral exams probed literary instances of death leading to beauty (elegy, last words, odes, etc.); dressing the body of a dear friend for burial over 20 years ago remains one of my most profound spiritual experiences; and on my mission in Colombia, I was struck by the ubiquitousness of fatality, as death notices were papered on lamp posts […]
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