Category Archives: Grief

On My Images of Nature

Since I began this weblog in 2004, I have occasionally been asked why I include images of nature with many of my posts. How, for example, do pictures of the sea relate to a post on fairness or ones of a river connect with writing on self-worth? Not every post has photographs of nature, but […]

May 31, 2017 – 1:24 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Blogging, Grief, Photographs, Self-Knowledge | Comments (2)

The Politics of Contempt

All you have to do these days is read just about any political post — say on Facebook if not some other favorite website –and then go to the comments section: Person A: “Person B, what a liar! You should be forced to prove your accusation. People like you are enemies of the state” Person […]

January 14, 2017 – 12:34 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Changing the World, Conflict, Grief, Power, Shadow, Wounds | Comments (14)

A Journey Through the Underworld

Last night I carried into my sleep the tensions I live with while awake — the same tensions many carry right now. I felt cramped, smothered, yet I couldn’t escape from the place where I found myself. I was part of a slow-moving horror, a crazy darkness. Then gradually, something of life and sanity returned […]

November 22, 2016 – 2:00 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Conflict, Grief, Self-Knowledge | Comments (6)

World Beyond Our World

The other day on NPR I listened to the story of 9/11 survivor, Brian Clark, a now retired executive vice president for Euro Bankers, who had been at work in the South Tower that day fifteen years ago. He is one of the few survivors to get out of the building from above where the […]

September 8, 2016 – 6:11 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Angels, Choices, Grief, Listening, Love | Comments (7)