The Next Day - On Grief, Hope, and Optimism
This is a free excerpt from a work in progress. The Next Day looks at how grieving over a change in life circumstances intersects with the demands of the material world.
This is a free excerpt from a work in progress. The Next Day looks at how grieving over a change in life circumstances intersects with the demands of the material world.
This is a free excerpt from a work in progress. The Next Day looks at how grieving over a change in life circumstances intersects with the demands of the material world.
“The wind got up in the night and took our plans away” - Chinese proverb
“The polycrisis has disrupted what we had all been calling normal. What the ‘new normal’ will turn out to be is not apparent yet. The loss of a job or vocation or sector can knock anyone’s sense of optimism, especially if that is experienced against the background of, say, a pandemic that is challenging the economy and just about every societal norm you could name. The challenge is to develop a sense of potential in the future at a time when that future is hard to see.”