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Sunday, June 27, 2021

"Our culture... values happiness inordinately"

From The New York Times: We Want to Travel and Party. Hold That Thought. How to grieve 16 months of sickness, death and isolation.

...Facing suffering head-on is not an easy task or one that’s encouraged in our culture, which values happiness inordinately. Telling or changing our story takes time, and it can be a painful process. But it’s a necessary one if we want to move past the brokenness of this difficult year toward a newfound sense of wholeness.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/opinion/covid-pandemic-grief.html?smid=em-share