Being with Heartbreak
Published: Thu, 11/10/16
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Being with Heartbreak
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“Lady Liberty”
“One could say that going through loss is the great awakener. It is a potential opening if you don’t run away from it. What is usually condemned as ‘bad’ by the mind and the mind-made self is actually grace coming into your life.”–Eckhart Tolle.
I’m heartbroken.
All I can do is be. Be like the tree above that continues to stand, and thrive, with such grace in the face of everything she’s had to deal with and weather.
I took the photo above weeks ago – pulled in by a sea of flags fluttering in the breeze on the grounds of nearby town library on my drive home from Costco. There, in the center of this temporary art installation, stood the permanent steward and ultimate space holder: a magnificent, gnarly old tree.
I had to get out of the car to take it all in.
At the time I thought, perfect! I’ll post this picture on Instagram on the day after the presidential election to celebrate the first woman president of the United States. I’m mean, really. From this angle, this tree looks like Lady Liberty herself!
What I didn’t realize is that the photo would be serving a very different, significant purpose; a different kind of freedom message than what I’d intended. It would be serving to buoy me up; to keep me steady; to remind me to take the long view.
For those of you grieving, like me, hoping for a different outcome in one of the most intense and divisive presidential elections that we’ve experienced as a nation in our lifetime, may this tree give you comfort too.
And if not that, perhaps there is a different kind of loss or unspeakable sadness that you are grieving today. May it buoy and steady you, too. May it remind you that there is nothing that light, and love, and time cannot handle.
And heal.
I dedicate this post to our beautiful country, world, and the human spirit that unites us all.
And to Hillary Rodham Clinton: I thank you for showing us how to follow your dreams with all of your heart… and when things don’t work out, how to feel the pain, concede with spaciousness… and keep moving forward.
Photo: “Lady Liberty” by Stephanie Bennett Vogt
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