6 Months of Grief Project: Day 11

To Be Hidden, Yet Seen

This is Day 11 of my #6MonthsOfGrief Project. To learn more about this practice, feel free to visit Day One, where I explain this project in more detail.

Today I am hidden, yet seen. This project sometimes makes me feel too exposed. I am pushing boundaries, both in my viewers, as well as in myself. This is a good thing, even though it makes me feel very uncomfortable. When does art go too far? Can it? How many Selfies are too many damn Selfies? I don't know. I am just listening and following and asking for help. Sometimes I feel powerful. Sometimes I feel vulnerable.

"Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

~ Walt Whitman in Song of Myself

I am very aware that this project can bring up a lot around yours or other's grief and loss, I will always follow every post with some online grief support resources that have helped me. Please feel free to let me know of online support that you have found healing in your grief, as well:

• Self-Portraits: Expressing Emotion Through Art on What's Your Grief?

• Grief Bibliography on Grief Healing

• The Hard Romance of Grief by Mark Liebenow

• A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

• Megan Devine’s Refuge in Grief

• The Geography of Sorrow: Francis Weller on Navigating Our Loses, interviewed by Tim McKee in Sun Magazine

• The poetry of John O’Donohue

• How to Be a Friend in Deed by Bruce Feiler in the New York Times

• 12 Things to Know About the First Year of Grieving Someone You Can’t Live Without by Laurie Costanza in Elephant Magazine

Thank you, and see you tomorrow.