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Stephanie C. Bell's avatar

This this this: "Feel the way your grief is inherently tethered to what you love." <3 Thank you Lisa! Also these photos in the woods have my heart!

Lisa Olivera's avatar

the grief, the woods, same 💛💛💛

Julie  Elvick's avatar

This is a powerful offering! Thank you❤️

Lisa Olivera's avatar

Thanks for reading, Julie <3

Sharon Malonza's avatar

I’ve never commented on here but I share excerpts of your newsletter often on my Instagram stories. I love love love your newsletter. It has given language to many emotions and experiences I have and continue to navigate including grief, creating and just leading a life with a lens of love, compassion and curiosity. Thank you so much for sharing your work/ art/gift. ✨🥰

Lisa Olivera's avatar

So deeply grateful for your reflection — thank you for taking the time 💛💛

Ti Ames's avatar

Following the breadcrumbs… oh, this is beautiful, necessary and so much needed today. Thank you!

Lisa Olivera's avatar

Glad it reached you 💛

Rachel Bellinger's avatar

Thank you for this essay, so moving and soothing. And for sharing Tatiana’s piece in The New Yorker, wow.

Lisa Olivera's avatar

Such a profound piece, that essay. Thank you 💛

Christine Sparacino's avatar

So much tenderness and wisdom in this essay! Thank you for your offering 💜 I’ll continue welcoming the birds and noticing love

Lisa Olivera's avatar

Grateful for your presence 💛

Joe Noonan Deeper Into Nature's avatar

I didn't know how much i needed this til tears were streaming down my face. Thank you for the provocation of this grief, that a broken heart is open, reminding me i am alive, raw, opening to more, feeling something greater holding me in this pain. How could we not be in grief, all of us, the whole western world writhing in denial, separation and destruction. As much as i've unconsciously resisted it i now recognize grief is a refuge, a place for healing, providing solace and comfort, affirming my humanness and its inherent love. I don't know if these words make sense but i do know i am alive, and that gives me peace. Again, thanks for your words.

Lisa Olivera's avatar

How could we not be in grief… yes. Thank you for your reflection 💛

Pat Leuterio's avatar

This is such a beautiful read. I’ve been learning to practice love more intentionally, especially towards myself and the people I love. It’s such a beautiful, love-filled world if we just slow down once in a while and actually sit with it.

Susan Harley's avatar

Love 🧡love 🧡love 🧡this Lisa. More superb wisdom , so beautifully endowed in your words. Thank you .

Lisa Olivera's avatar

Thank you for reading 💛

Lu Bee's avatar

You write beautifully!

Michelle Urvall-Ashraf's avatar

What a nice post - made me feel warm and happy. Glad I found your newsletter!

Rebecca D. Martin's avatar

Now I'm breathing more deeply. I needed this. Thank you.

Rebecca D. Martin's avatar

PS I was thinking of Come See Me in the Good Light the whole time I was reading this post. Then you linked to it. :)

Kara Hoppe's avatar

I keep coming back to this letter with these dear breadcrumbs. I leaned into the joy that found me this morning and found that it just expanded so easily and deeply. Thank you!! <3