Sharing the Weight of Change

It's all in how we carry it

It’s a word meant to carry some weight — grieving. Those two g’s like arms bent for hauling wood to a fire. Its roots reaching into an old French word meaning burden. Grieving names the work of a heavy heart.

We often think of grieving as what follows the loss of a loved one, and our many customs for mourning a death pay tribute to the role of community …