In follow up to Ellie and Open's comments about grief work, I am, once again, giving a shout out to Carolyn Baker, Jungian psychologist, courageous leader, and author of many books about sacred demise and collapsing consciously as industrial civilization winds down here. Carolyn facilitates communal grief workshops in the U.S. and perhaps elsewhere. If anyone is interested, just google her name with the word "author" and her website comes up. She's also on Facebook. I have read a few of her books, most recently "Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse." It can get awfully lonely when most turn away from this subject, so I greatly appreciate Carolyn's books and my Facebook contact with her as an adjunct to the invaluable support of Openhand-ers and a few family members and friends who have the courage to look the beast in the eye. I continue with my own grieving process.

x Cathy