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Salt & Stories

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We'll pour colored salt into clear jars and stories of our absent beloveds into each other's hearts. Come make something layered, bright and new from connections to love ones who aren't physically present and our connection to each other.

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Salt & Stories
Salt & Stories

When & Where

Mar 07, 2021, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PST

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Who

What

This month at the Grief House we're gathering to tell stories and pour salt.

The activity is simple - we'll collect table salt, chalk, one long, thin stick and a clear jar. Then we'll sit (virtually) together to color the salt, pour it in layers and integrate the layeres in patterns that reach down through and dip into each other. 

While we're pouring our salt we'll take turns telling stories about our loved ones who are missing. Whether they're absent because of death or dementia, divorce, or depression we'll spend a few hours holding and holding up the parts of them that live inside us. Each layer of color will be devoted to one story so, in the end, we'll have a visual reminder of what our hearts look like: complex, interwoven, deeply (and beautifully) layered.

For this event, gather:

1 container of table salt

red, blue and yellow chalk…

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Finding Us

Our spaces are open for gatherings & designated open house hours. 

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.

The Portland Grief House 7906 N Fessenden St, Portland, OR 97203 Notes on finding us: We are the green house on the corner of N Fessenden & N Allegheny Ave. Enter through the gate at the corner.

Wilderings, operating as The Grief House, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN  84-4336786) and all donations are tax deductible. 

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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