Grief cannot be contained inside a person but spills into the world

Evidence

I paddled more easily back to the shore. Loading the kayak onto the car in the fading light, I was doused with the leftover pond water draining onto my head. I smiled at the illusion of my grief-containment system: there is no such thing. We spill over into the world and the world spills over into us. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 352

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Soundscape course’s listening/immersion method and the eco-justice theme that humans are not walled off from place; also ties to ch5 ‘landscape raises a person’. — connects to: Grief can drain meaning from the surrounding world while leaving inner thought intact — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1524; Writing can release grief the writer did not know existed. — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 2513
• DEEPTHINKING: A compact statement of the polyad’s core epistemology — no bounded self, only permeable exchange with place — that recurs across all four courses.

Broader Connections

• Grief can drain meaning from the surrounding world while leaving inner thought intact #expands (0.85) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1524
• Writing can release grief the writer did not know existed. #exemplifies (0.80) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 2513