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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 7d

🌊 The California Grief Center offers:
• Virtual grief counseling (CA + nationwide)
• Catharsis Theater gatherings
• Support for traumatic, anticipatory, and hidden grief

You don’t have to grieve alone.
We don’t treat grief as a problem — we treat it as a passage.
💛 Learn more → caligrief.com

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 7d

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🌸 Catharsis Theater for Loss & Healing — Tomorrow, Oct 18 | 1–4:30pm | Culver City
Free community gathering.
Not performance. Not therapy.
Just presence, story, and shared humanity.

40+ sessions since 2023.
All are welcome.

#CatharsisTheater #HealingTogether #LosAngeles

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 7d

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🏚️ A writer wanders through America’s ghost towns, searching for the line between memory and ruin.
What she finds isn’t emptiness — it’s persistence.
Even the quietest towns keep finding reasons to live.

Grief can feel the same way.

#Resilience #GriefWave #Community

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 7d

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📻 The Voice That Built NPR — Susan Stamberg reminded us that stories connect more than facts ever could.
Even after decades on the air, her warmth taught millions that listening is love.

In grief, as in journalism, presence is everything.

#Storytelling #Connection #Loss

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 7d

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🕯️ Where What Hurts Meets What Heals
Grief isn’t an ending — it’s an opening.
A moment to face pain, hold meaning, and rediscover connection.

This week’s Grief Wave explores how memory and community help heal what remains.
🌊 Read: open.substack.com/pub/caligrie...
#TheGriefWave #Grief #Healing

"The Grief Wave" Newsletter – October 17, 2025 | Where What Hurts Meets What Heals + Catharsis Theater for Loss (10/18)

From loss to renewal, this week’s stories trace how memory, language, and community help us heal what still aches.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 9d

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We honor grief by acting.
We honor life by remembering.
Thank you, Heather Cox Richardson, and all who keep truth alive in an age of forgetting.

#Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #Equality #AmericanHistory #Community #Adversity #Transition

California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 9d

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A shutdown is not stillness — it’s suffocation.
Services cut, people unpaid, hope deferred.
But every collapse carries the seed of renewal.
Grief is where the next chapter begins. 🌱

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 9d

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Grief is not only personal — it’s political.
When health care stalls, when education erodes, when leaders choose cruelty over care — we all feel the ache.
History reminds us: community is how democracy breathes again. 🤍

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 9d

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Picture a house on shifting sands. Each budget cut, each act of cruelty — another tremor.
This isn’t just dysfunction. It’s grief at a national scale: the loss of trust, stability, belonging.
We can name it. Feel it. And rebuild. 🕊️

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 9d

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HCR’s latest piece is a storm warning for democracy 🌩️
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The shutdown isn’t just politics — it’s a slow bleed of trust and care.
Historians like Richardson hold the light, reminding us where we fell — and how to rise again.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

October 14, 2025

The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

open.substack.com

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 10d

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History is a living body. When we destroy its heart—the art, the memory, the grief that made us humane—we risk embalming democracy itself.
Thank you, Heather Cox Richardson, for keeping the pulse.

#Bluesky #Grief #Democracy #History #HeatherCoxRichardson #PoliticalGrief #AmericanMemory

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 10d

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The 1930s vision of Frances Perkins said: “The people are what matter to government.”
Today’s leaders sell that vision’s home and build an idol to self.
It’s the old struggle—community versus cruelty, shared safety versus the myth of the lone man.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 10d

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While plans rise for a monument to power, another building—the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, once home to the murals of Social Security’s birth—faces demolition.
Ben Shahn’s painted faces of miners, mothers, and children may soon be rubble.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 10d

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One arch looks forward to conquest.
Another—Lincoln’s—looks back in mourning.
Between them lies the bridge to Arlington, where those who died to preserve the Union rest.
To disrupt that line is to sever grief from its meaning.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 10d

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A proposed Triumphal Arch—gold winged statue and all—rises from the Potomac in Trump’s imagination.
Facing Lincoln’s Memorial, it casts a shadow not of triumph but of forgetting.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

A reminder: architecture tells our national story.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

October 13, 2025

Last Tuesday, President Donald J.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 11d

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📚 Historians like HCR hold the national soul to the light.
They remind us that truth is not partisan—it’s oxygen.
To face our history is to love our country enough to tell it whole.

#Bluesky #Grief #History #America #Democracy #Truth #Healing #CaliforniaGriefCenter

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 11d

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🔥 What threatens America isn’t grief over our past—it’s arson against our memory.
When history is twisted into propaganda, we lose the patterns that protect us.
A society grounded in fiction cannot stand; it collapses under the weight of its own story.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 11d

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🕯️ Commemoration is about who we are now, not who they were then.
In the 1920s, Columbus Day stood against the Klan’s hate.
A century later, honoring Indigenous Peoples stands against denial.
Values evolve—that’s the pulse of a living democracy.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 11d

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🌎 The “Columbian Exchange” was not discovery—it was devastation.
Ideas, crops, and germs crossed oceans, but only one side carried immunity.
Grief became the first harvest.
To study history honestly is to mourn what was lost and learn what must never be repeated.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 11d

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History isn’t a monument—it’s a mirror.
Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when leaders rewrite the past to sanctify power, they set fire to truth itself.
Today’s proclamation about Columbus reveals not reverence, but revision.

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social

October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 11d

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America’s story is a pendulum between repression and renewal.
Each swing costs us something, yet each return proves the spirit endures.
Thank God for historians who hold the light steady when we can’t.

📜 #Democracy #History #PoliticalGrief #Community #Resilience #Bluesky #Grief

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 11d

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There’s a kind of moral vertigo when rulers mock Congress as “ceremonial,” when justice bends toward cruelty.
But history also holds an antidote: courage, memory, and the stubborn human will to choose empathy over fear.
Grief can become ballast. It keeps the ship from capsizing.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 11d

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In grief work we say: name what’s happening, or it owns you.
Heather names it. She names the lies, the silencing, the rewriting of meaning itself.
When language is weaponized, naming becomes resistance—an act of collective therapy for a nation forgetting how to feel.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 11d

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A journalist pinned to the ground.
A senator barred from oversight.
A president praising autocrats.
Each act chips away at the fragile body of the Republic—what Lincoln called “the last, best hope.”
Political grief is not partisan; it’s the heartbreak of watching promise decay into threat.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 11d

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History, HCR reminds us, is not an archive but a mirror.
Today’s reflection shows power turning inward, silencing truth-tellers and calling dissent “hate.”
Democracy feels like an organ under siege—wounded, yet still alive.

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social

October 10, 2025

All of President Donald J.

open.substack.com

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