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Wilderings: Overcome by Wilderness II

April 20th - 25th, 2020

April 20th: Wait until dark tonight. Go stand outside - preferably someplace you can see the moon. Bring your notepad and your pen, set your timer for 7 minutes. Look around for 5 breaths. Close your eyes for 5 breaths. Open your eyes and look around for 5 breaths...until the timer rings. Reset your timer for 7 minutes. Write or draw for 5 breaths. Stop for 5 breaths. Write or draw for 5 breaths...until the timer rings.

April 21st: Tonight after dark go outside. (If it’s raining and you can’t find shelter stand in a dark room by a window). Set your timer for 7 minutes. Close your eyes. Smell and listen. Stay where you are and reset your timer for 7 minutes. Talk out loud and write down everything you say. Don’t write down anything you don’t say. 

April 22nd: Sit and watch one space. Notice anything that moves through it. Write down all the things that moved. 

April 23rd: Remember a place in nature that you love. Remember with your eyes open or closed. Remember as much as you can. Next place each thing you can remember onto a list. 

April 24th: Using only words you’ve written while overcome this week make a series of 5 haiku. The last word of the first haiku is the first word of the second - all the way through to the last word of the fifth which is the first word of the first.

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The Grief House is not a replacement for skilled mental health care. We cannot provide acute crisis intervention. If you’re struggling to find the help you need, we are happy to offer referrals and suggest resources. If you feel like you might hurt yourself or someone else, help is available 24 hours a day from the National Suicide Hotline (1-800-273-8255) or by dialing or texting 988. If you are having a medical emergency, please dial 911.

Finding Us

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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