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Love What You Can't Hold

Thu, Jun 15

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Wapato Island Farm

On this near-Summer evening join us at Wapato Island Farm for a bird walk, a meditation on impermanence and a pot-luck dinner with fellow grievers.

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Love What You Can't Hold
Love What You Can't Hold

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Jun 15, 2023, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Wapato Island Farm, 15115 NW Gillihan Rd, Portland, OR 97231

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In Adrienne Maree Brown writes: "Love leads us to observe in a much deeper way than any other emotion." On this near-Summer evening we hope you'll join us in the presencing practices of listening, observing, sensing, feeling, and letting go as we walk with the birds of Sauvie Island and contemplate the question:  Emergent Strategyin the landscape of impermanance, how do I love what I cannot hold?

With the beautiful lands of Wapato Island Farm, through the lens of the ephemeral, we'll bear witness to the lives of the birds we encounter and trace the unseen pathway back into our own interiors and the ephemeral within us. 

We'll begin with guided grounding and a grief share, led by Laura Green. Then we'll strike out with Han Lyons to meet the birds and land. Following our walk we will practice a long savasana , guided by Cary Spaeth, under the nightening…

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The Atlanta Grief House Nickerson Cottage at Legacy Park Decatur 500 S. Columbia Dr, Decatur, GA 30030 Notes on finding us: GPS will take you to the center of Legacy Park. The Nickerson Cottage is a stone building with raised bed gardens on the south side of Legacy Park's campus. If you enter campus through the south entrance it will be the first cottage you come to. You can park in any of the surrounding lots. If coming in the evening you will see the string lights on our front porch. Nickerson Cottage is largely wheelchair accessible.

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The Grief House works on and serves communities on land that is the unceeded territory of the Muskogee, Cherokee and Creek peoples in Georgia and the Clackamas, Stl’pulmsh, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and Siletz peoples in Oregon.

 

We honor them as we live, work and serve grievers on these unceeded lands. 

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