The Wild Edge of Sorrow: The Wild Edge of Sorrow Official Workbook Reflections, rituals, and meditations for grief and renewal

by Francis Weller

Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, “What we cannot speak about, we pass over in silence.”

We were not meant to live shallow lives, pocked by meaningless routines and the secondary satisfactions of happy hour.

(This is when we have happy hour in our culture. Drinks at half-price! Perhaps this is how we anesthetize our loss.)

The frequent question is: “What do you do for a living?” Or worse: “How you do earn a living?” I find that question obscene.

think most people walk around possessed by the dullest parts of themselves; this, the worst state of possession, is called “normal.”)48

Our obsession with perfection is itself a strategy that we cling to in an attempt to overcome our feelings of being outside the wall of welcome.