Season of Unravelling - Compost Library Week 4

Where grief lives in the unravelling

Mar 24, 2025

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As we move deeper into the Season of Unravelling, we start to notice how grief isn’t something we hold alone. It’s woven into the land itself, into the silences between words, into the stories we inherit and the ones we lose.

This week, we sit with two books that hold these threads of mourning, kinship, and emergence — Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Mach…

Season of Unravelling - Compost Library Week 4

Where grief lives in the unravelling

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