“A friend related to me the death of one of their friends, perhaps as some form of abjectly confused ‘retaliation’ for some event.

This is an important topic, and I will speak to it at length shortly. For now, however, I will trace the pivot to remind myself of it.

When someone or something (alive) we care for is destroyed or dies… this death ‘becomes ours’. It comes inside us. But it does not have the qualities and values we too easily presume. It is a gift. We can make of it something horrific, disabling, painful, tragic… or, we can »receive the spirit of the communion, and make of it an empowering array of transformative contexts, perspectives, actions and … wonder.

Mourning is natural. But even in this we must realize, this death… these deaths… are not merely tragedies – and we are responsible for how we carry and express their actual power and nature.

These losses are an invitation to becoming, and contain assets that could overwhelm their apparent causes overnight… should we decide to make this of them together. They can become wings, and the souls or lives ‘lost’, can, should we, the living, merely allow it… become otherwise impossible opportunities for the survivors and the world, to learn, understand, and recover our humanity. Ask yourself a simple question here: what is a »true memorialization? Agony and grief, accusation and reaction?

Or … birth, wisdom, transformation and wonder?

Let us together recover the ways of opening the agonizing seed of death and tragedy … and transforming the words, the world and our minds with the impossible assets therein ‘encrypted’.”

— an anonymous informant