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A Rite of Passage

Sayings to soothe & inspire

“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we have never met.”
– David Levithan

May We Suggest: Empty Branch in the Orchardby Mary Oliver “Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”- Lao Tzu [Don’t let me leave you, […]

Kathleen Clohessy

Mourning COVID victims in China
Credit: BBC news
Mourning COVID victims in China
Credit: BBC news

May We Suggest:

Default ThumbnailEmpty Branch in the Orchard
by Mary Oliver
 Default Thumbnail“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
– Lao Tzu
Default Thumbnail[Don’t let me leave you, I may die]
by Kseniya Marennikova (translated by Daniel Weissbort)

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