St John's Community Open House & Garden-Greeting Party

Join us at the Portland Grief House on the first Sunday of Spring for an open-house-style gathering and garden-greeting party. Turn your winter's losses into the spring soil, meet your fellow grieving neighbors, dream about what we might grow together.

Spring can be a tender season - new life comes up out of old, but our mainstream culture tends to hide the loss and death all seedings root in.

We will take some time together, just after the balance point of day and night, to notice and honor what we've carried through the cold months and are ready to lay down with sadness, tenderness, gratitude, regret, joy, relief or all of the above and more.

We'll then invite in hope for the next cycle - what are you dreaming of? what are you longing for? - and consider ways we can support each other in making these dreams reality.

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