235: On Grief and Healing with Amanda Held Opelt
The Next Right Thing
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A Funeral Ritual Is Not Magic
Amanda, i think it's helpful to hear the specificity of where you write from and where you're sitting. I'm really on the front row of devastating loss. Your intentionally held a funeral, from what i could tell, not a celebration of life. And your eulogy, the way you spoke of your sister, something shifted in me that day. But you say yourself, speaking of ritual, that ritual is not magic. What it is is like smooth stones stretched across a rushing river. They provide the right step across the torrent and set our bodies in motion. You say you needed time, honored traditions and tested rituals. Like you said, almost something that has been done before
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