Returning to Rhythms

Just one way through grief

It’s been weeks since I’ve published a note here. In the midst of sharing my current journey with grief in a series of Talking Notes, I haven’t been in the best of places to pose “good questions.” But things have gotten better recently. I’ve had the benefit of a new gym opening close by and a canceled Netflix subscription to help kickstart a return to some better rhythms.

So, the questions in this note are relatively straightforward. They all have to do with returning to rhythms that are good. Without any kind of self condemnation, guilt, or shame, I have asked myself these very questions in the past weeks in a effort to return to, or even start, practices.

The heart here is not that practices in and of themselves are a solution, but rather that in doing them, we may be reminded of the wonder of life, rather than the sadness of grief.

Let us begin: