Artful dispatches from the places where we find ourselves
The defense against shame, guilt, and mourning leads to emotional emptiness in the individual and, in consequence, to psychological and political immobility, to a lack of ideas and imagination in society.
Margarete Mitscherlich-Neilson
The Problem of Loss and Mourning
I. O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by. Yet…