{"id":14056,"date":"2020-11-18T06:35:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/?p=14056"},"modified":"2020-12-14T06:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:37:04","slug":"we-have-all-lost-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/radical-joy-revealed\/we-have-all-lost-something\/","title":{"rendered":"We have all lost something"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On November 16, more than 166,000 people in the United States were diagnosed with COVID-19. In Europe, where the number of cases had fallen during the summer, the disease is again spiking. Everywhere hospitals are overfilled and medical care workers are exhausted. Worldwide, more than 1.3 million people have died.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Who among us hasn\u2019t lost something to this disease\u2014a beloved parent, a high school prom, a job opportunity, a dream, a plan, a new love.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Individually, we cope the best we can, by holding meetings and classes on Zoom, wearing masks, and keeping our distance. We also do it by sacrificing yet another thing we love, like visits with family, working together, going to a movie.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Something else is called for. We need to come together around the grief that is tearing us apart. We need to acknowledge what we have lost, and we need to do it not silently and privately but in the company of others who have COVID stories and COVID sorrows of their own.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We invite you to join RadJoy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/global-day-of-mourning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Day of Mourning<\/a> on January 10, 2021, the one-year anniversary of first recorded death from the disease that came to be known as COVID.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is a day for coming together, online or safely distanced, with family or friends, sharing stories of what you have lost and recognizing the gifts of this time. For suggestions on how to participate, see our <a href=\"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/global-day-of-mourning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>RadJoy will be available throughout the day to support your Day of Mourning in whatever way you wish. We\u2019ll launch the\u00a0day with a webinar featuring noted speakers. Later, we\u2019ll offer online, facilitated storytelling circles, and a traditional Iroquois Condolence Ceremony. Finally, we invite you to a DJ\u2019d dance event to move \u201ctogether\u201d from sorrow to joy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please join us. It is time to mourn together and to find the light that, though it cannot make the darkness disappear, can pierce darkness with joy and meaning.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 16, more than 166,000 people in the United States were diagnosed with COVID-19. In Europe, where the number of cases had fallen during the summer, the disease is again spiking. Everywhere hospitals are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[395],"place":[],"event-year":[344],"media-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14056"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=14056"},{"taxonomy":"event-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-year?post=14056"},{"taxonomy":"media-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-type?post=14056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}