Not Scared, Just Different

Source: Not Scared, Just Different

I would love to share Tim McKee’s interview of Francis Weller “The Geography of Sorrow.” I will keep looking until I find it to share (though I have already shared it on FB, Twitter & several other sites).

Tim, Thank you for facing what many of us find too unbearable. I am very grateful for your willingness to shed light on a difficult subject. Mil gracias for this story about letting your dad go.
;-)

Sherrie

THE SUN INTERVIEW

The Geography Of Sorrow

Francis Weller On Navigating Our Losses

http://thesunmagazine.org/issues/478/the_geography_of_sorrow

by TIM MCKEE

TIM McKEE is the director of publishing at North Atlantic Books. He lives in a small house with a big backyard in Oakland, California, with his wife, their ten-year-old son, and their dog. He likes home-cooked dinners served outside in the fading evening light.

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For a man who specializes in grief and sorrow, psychotherapist Francis Weller certainly seems joyful. When I arrived at his cabin in Forestville, California, he emerged with a smile and embraced me. His wife, Judith, headed off to garden while Francis led me into their home among the redwoods to talk.

I had wanted to interview Weller ever since the publisher I work for, North Atlantic Books, had agreed to publish his new book, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief. Over the previous few years my father, grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law, and sister-in-law had all died, and I’d also moved across the country and was missing the friends and community I’d left behind. I’d been living with a free-floating state of unease, but I’d largely sidestepped direct encounters with my losses.

You can continue reading Tim's interview by clicking on the link above his name.