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Upcoming Grief Circle on February 18th -

Upcoming Grief Circle on February 18th “Joy is not the opposite of grief. Grief is the opposite of indifference. Grief is an evolutionary indicator of love—the kind of love that guides revolutionaries.” Malkia Devich-Cyril

The poem that inspired the name of my business. And the vision I aspire to and what I support others in finding.

Here is the whole poem

How Surely Gravity’s Law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of the smallest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world.

Each thing—
each stone, blossom, child —
is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
push out beyond what we each belong to
for some empty freedom.

If we surrendered�to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.

So like children, we begin again
to learn from the things,
because they are in God’s heart;
they have never left him.

This is what the things can teach us:
to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that�before he can fly.