Writing about grief, hope, music, memory and community.
When you lose the people who were there, you lose something specific: the corroboration. The confirmation that it happened, that it was real, that you are not constructing a world out of nothing.
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They say the Welsh have a word for a kind of longing that doesn't quite exist anywhere else — hiraeth. It rolls off the tongue like the wind coming down from the hills, a little soft at the start, lingering at the end.
Grief can be the loneliest place in the world. But it doesn't have to be walked alone. On finding the Sad Dads Club — and why community in grief matters more than anything.
On 10 September each year, World Suicide Prevention Day is observed — a WHO initiative marked around the world. In many countries candles are lit, talks are held and conversations happen that rarely find room the rest of the year.