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EXAMPLE: A Tiny Story of Life After Loss

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EXAMPLE: A Tiny Story of Life After Loss

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One of the last times I saw my little brother before he was left to die on a New York City Street was on Christmas Eve. It was snowing as he left my house and he instinctively reached his arms toward the sky, as if he were thanking the heavens for this frozen magic kissing our skin. He unleashed a childlike laugh that shattered the quiet night; a million sparkling fragments of joy. In this burst of exhilaration, he was backlit by the soft glow of snow on the Christmas lights adorning the bushes on my walkway, like wool illuminated from within. It was as if he was ascending. A warmth in what’s frozen. Is that what hope is? Is there still warmth in us? Can we levitate ourselves above it all? Can we still illuminate in the cold?

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In 100 - 200 words, submit a tiny story on the theme of "life after loss." 

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In 100 - 200 words, submit a tiny story on the theme of "life after loss." 

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About The Authors Shaina Feinberg Julia Rothman

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When your world is upended, how do you react? Who do you become? New York Times columnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, s…

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From New York Times contributing opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family-and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.

Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents-her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father-and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child's transition to caregiver.

And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worlds-the natural one and our own-"the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love's own twin."

Gorgeously illustrated by the author's brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut.

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Growing up in Alabama, the author was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she offers an unusual, captivating portrait of her family and her childhood-and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.

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Death Is Not the End is a cross-cultural exhibition that explores notions of death and afterlife through the art of Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity. The exhibition invites contemplation of the universal human condition of impermanence and the desire to continue to exist. Join curator Elena Pakhoutova on a virtual tour through the exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art.
Death Is Not the End is supported by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation, Robert Lehman Foundation, and The Prospect Hill Foundation. The Rubin Museum's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of Governor Kathy Hochcul and the New York State Legislature. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Death is not the End | A Tour with Curator Elena Pakhoutova - Rubin Museum of Art

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The Rubin Museum of Art is a dynamic environment that stimulates learning, promotes understanding, and inspires personal connections to the ideas, cultures, and art of Himalayan Asia.

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Create a 1-2 minute soundscape which captures the essence of your tiny story of life after loss. 

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Create a 1-2 minute soundscape which captures the essence of your tiny story of life after loss. 

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For the duration of the semester, we've explored how artists have used music to address these profound topics. For this last final project, YOU get to be the artist and draw from your own personal experiences on the theme of "Life After Loss." You can define loss in whatever way you'd like. Loss isn't necessarily a death; it can be related to life transitions, sickness, world events, etc. Here is what you need to do:

1. Think about how the theme of "Life After Loss" connects to your own lived experience.

2. Capture an aspect of your personal experience with life after loss in a BRIEF (100 - 300 words) paragraph. (This is modeled after the New York Times "Tiny Love Stories" series. You should definitely check it out for examples of the kind of thing I'm looking for here.)

3. Pair this description with a piece of art that YOU create. This could be (but is not limited to) a photo, a drawing, a collection of sounds, music, a poem, a video, dance, etc. Any artistic expression is viable and acceptable.

4. Submit your description and a file of your artwork (again, using this term to encompass all kinds of creativity).

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MUS 358: Social Justice, Music, Education

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MUS 358: Social Justice, Music, Education

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TCNJ Wind Ensemble Concert: Life After Loss April 27th

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TCNJ Wind Ensemble Concert: Life After Loss April 27th

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Hi everyone! I'm Colleen Sears and I currently serve as the chair of the Department of Music. I've been on the faculy at TCNJ for eleven years and actually went here as an undergrad! This is the fourth major collaboration of The Artivism Project, which aims to explore social justice and shared humanity through a variety of artistic experiences, curriculum development, and community partnerships. I'm excited to see what emerges from this iteration of Artivism!

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Hi everyone! I'm Colleen Sears and I currently serve as the chair of the Department of Music. I've been on the faculy at TCNJ for eleven years and actually went here as an undergrad! This is the fourth major collaboration of The Artivism Project, which aims to explore social justice and shared humanity through a variety of artistic experiences, curriculum development, and community partnerships. I'm excited to see what emerges from this iteration of Artivism!

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When someone you care about isn't here anymore, your love for them continues...
What do you do with that love when that someone isn't here to give it to? Everywhere, Still is a book about missing someone. It's a book about loss and grief--whether that loss is permanent or temporary. And it's a reminder that there is always a way to stay close with the people who are biggest in our hearts, no matter how far across space and time they may be.
Read this meaningful book to a child when a grandparent or loved one has passed, a parent is living or serving abroad, a dear friend has moved away, or a pet is very much missed. With touching illustrations, each page is a way to honor every emotion a child is experiencing. Features a hardcover and foil-stamped dust jacket.

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Everywhere, Still: A Book about Loss, Grief, and the Way Love Continues

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When someone you care about isn't here anymore, your love for them continues... What do you do with that love when that someone isn't here to give it to? Everywhere, Still is a book about missing someone. It's a book about loss and grief--whether that loss is permanent or temporary.

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'Before I die' is a public art project that asks people to publicly and anonymously write down something they want to do before they die -- prompting reflection on grief and loss.

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Before I Die is a global art project that invites people to reflect on death and share their personal aspirations in public. Originally created by Candy Chang in New Orleans after the death of a loved one, there are now over 5,000 walls around the world.

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Hello Everyone, this is Alan Amtzis from Graduate Studies (and School of Ed) Somewhere on this Padlet, I will (try to) post two very beautiful examples of writing that have comforted me...and others. it is hard to write about loss, especially death, and say something that doesn't feel smaller than the emotions and the experience of the hole left behind. BUT.....both Thornton Wilder and Rabindranath Tagore have succeeded, i think. Look for my samples of their writing about loss....and death....on this Padlet.

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Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder

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Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder

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Peace, my heart.....  by Rabindranath Tagore

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Peace, my heart.....  by Rabindranath Tagore

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I can't even count the number of times I've read this heartbreakingly beautiful memoir about how we lose so much of what really matters to us.

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I'm Glenn Steinberg in the English Department at TCNJ. I study medieval literature as a scholar, and I've recently started a new research project on masculine grief in texts of the Middle Ages. Scholars of medieval literature tend to generalize about medieval male grief as always necessarily turning into vengeful anger (and anything else as being womanish), but I see many representations of male grief in medieval texts that don't fit this generalization. My research has also sparked an interest in the concept of "emotional communities" (Barbara Rosenwein), which are groups that share assumptions, language, and stories about feelings. Some of the texts that I study seem to belong to an emotional community that represents male grief very differently from the generalizations of modern scholars about medieval mourning.

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Hi all, I am a faculty member in Psychology. I am starting to explore more creative expression after having spent most of my career in quantitative scholarship. Colleen mentioned a great idea of getting involved via partnerships with local live music venues. I could also imagine incorporating themes of loss into my PSY390 Lab course, which focuses on drastic changes to the field of psychology. Such changes have led to existential crises not only for individual members of the field, but for the field itself.

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https://thegoldenhour.substack.com/p/barbie-burning-man-and-the-rest-of?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fsolastasia&utm_medium=reader2

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doi: 10.1080/10398560701701288.

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¹ School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia. Glenn.Albrecht@newcastle.edu.au

Abstract

Objective: Solastalgia is a new concept developed to give greater meaning and clarity to environmentally induced distress. As opposed to nostalgia--the melancholia or homesickness experienced by individuals when separated from a loved home--solastalgia is the distress that is produced by environmental change impacting on people while they are directly connected to their home environment. The paper will focus on two contexts where collaborative research teams have found solastalgia to be evident: the experiences of persistent drought in rural NSW and the impact of large-scale open-cut coal mining on individuals in the Upper Hunter Valley of NSW. In both cases, people exposed to environmental change experienced negative affect that is exacerbated by a sense of powerlessness or lack of control over the unfolding change process.

Methods: Qualitative (interviews and focus groups) and quantitative (community-based surveys) research has been conducted on the lived experience of drought and mining, and the findings relevant to solastalgia are presented.

Results: The authors are exploring the potential uses and applications of the concept of solastalgia for understanding the psychological impact of the increasing incidence of environmental change worldwide.

Conclusions: Worldwide, there is an increase in ecosystem distress syndromes matched by a corresponding increase in human distress syndromes. The specific role played by global-scale environmental challenges to 'sense of place' and identity will be explored in the future development of the concept of solastalgia.

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Write me a haiku

On life after loss

Move me with your words

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students can create mini magazines (Zines) that tell their stories

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live storytelling events (we can film)

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Pop up poetry events

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create a playlist of songs that tell your story of life after loss

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transitions to and from college can bring up feelings of loss

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Stories depicted through visual media.

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HSS 487: Monuments, Memorials, & Belonging with Drs. Jaksch and Hutton

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HSS 487: Monuments, Memorials, & Belonging with Drs. Jaksch and Hutton

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What roles do monuments play in our local communities and in communities across the globe? How do monuments shape collective memory and ideas about the past, present, and future? Whose heritage tends to get commemorated, and, conversely, whose stories aren't told? Can memorials help heal pain? Can monuments be used to foster a sense of belonging? These questions and others will be explored through various intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches. We will visit local sites, talk to artists and activists, and discuss readings from a range of academic disciplines.

In particular, we want to explore how public monuments (defined in the broadest sense) on college campuses can assist us in grappling with complex issues regarding memory, history, trauma, and healing. For instance, how might we as a campus open up a conversation about descendants of the land TCNJ now occupies? How might we make TCNJ’s commitment to antiracism and social justice visible in meaningful ways? What would a welcoming, inclusive, accessible, and sustainable campus for future students look like? Our hope is that the result of our seminar will be a series of prototypes for monuments, memorials, or other types of interventions that can share our creative scholarly inquiries with the broader community in thought-provoking and engaging ways.

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Trinh Mai Thach is a Vietnamese-American artist who has done several projects about the losses experienced by Vietnamese refugees. The one that I like to teach is her installation, Quiet, from 2015, which you see in the above picture from her website. It is a memorial to all the people (especially children) who went missing in the escape from Vietnam. There is a lovely video about her work, Honoring Life, that discusses this piece as well as her other work: https://vimeo.com/652559357

(Deborah Hutton)

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Artwork by Trinh Mai, as Artist-in-Residence for the University of California Irvine’s Vietnamese American Oral History Project, for the exhibition,  VIETNAMESE FOCUS: Generations of Stories

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“Anything Essential is Invisible to the Eyes”: A Meditation on Love, Loss, and the Deeper Hearted Case for Music Education (Sears, 2019)

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“Anything Essential is Invisible to the Eyes”: A Meditation on Love, Loss, and the Deeper Hearted Case for Music Education (Sears, 2019)

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http://act.maydaygroup.org/volume-18-issue-2/act-18-2-sears/

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I am teaching a course this semester called Holocaust Testimonies, which is a group research seminar, HIS 390. Seven students and I are providing transcriptions of survivor testimonies archived at Yale University. The project reflects the very essence of "life after loss." Genocide survivors have witnessed the worst of humanity and have suffered unspeakable losses. But the act of giving testimony demonstrates that life does go on after loss.

Some people ask me how I don't get depressed teaching about genocide. The answer is seeing the hope that can emerge after the tremendous losses and believing that education can help us develop respect toward those who are different from us.

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Lox after Loss

I drove from Ben’s second Yahrzeit service to David’s apartment, wondering guiltily, could I carry grief alongside happiness?

The next morning, we walked down Fairmount Ave.  “Is that Klein’s?” I asked. “That’s where Ben always got his bagels.”

“He had good taste,” answered David. “They slice the lox right there.”

My hands shook as I chose bagels from plastic bins. I lost count, but David kept track. He ordered a quarter pound of lox at the deli counter, and I paid the cashier. When I picked it up, the bag felt lighter than I thought it would.

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