The art of grief is in remembering, not forgetting.

The art of intentional remembering is the focus of this fascinating article. This Globe & Mail article shares creative and wonderful strategies people use to keep a loved-one’s memory alive. Consider a 70-year-old Japanese man who installed a British-style phone box so he can have conversations with his dead cousin. Sound eccentric? Not to other grieving families: he then shared it with thousands of people who lost loved ones in the 2011 Tsunami. This article also has important things to say about how we understand grief in 2020, reflecting critically on what we’ve learned from Freud and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Read the article