Thread by @StefSimanowitz

“Tomorrow , the people of America will not just be united in states, they will also be united in grief.

On 5 March, one year since the first Briton died of #Covid19, we will be marking #CovidMemorialDay in the UK.” @Independent

Follow @CovidMemoryDay
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“One doesn’t recover from grief. If you're lucky, you heal from grief. But never completely. Unless we process our grief it can turn into anger or depression. We've seen a lot of that in America over the last year.”

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"To live in this world you must be able to do three things:

To love what is mortal

To hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it

And, when the time comes to let it go. To let it go."

Sue McAlpine reads ‘In Black Water Woods’ for #CovidMemorialDay.
#COVID19

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”

Actress/director, Simona Hughes (@about500theatre), reads The Stolen Child by W.B Yeats for #CovidMemorialDay.
#UnitedInGrief #COVID19

“Even when the sky is grey
Even when the rain is falling down
My heart will never need no reason why
So when the night turns into day
We spread our dreams & lighten up the sky
Its on the wings of prayer that we can fly”
@ilanalorraine for #CovidMemorialDay

“Does grief exceed words, or is it the other way around? How do you give voice to the animal howling inside of you?”

Tmw, people across the United States will share collective grief for 400,000 Americans lost to #COVID19

Take a moment to grieve.
#CovidMemorialDay #UnitedInGrief

I’ve always remembered the 2007 @bruceparry documentary where he’s leaving a tiny island & the entire village with whom he’s lived, come to the beach

They all start to cry
Then Bruce cries
Then you cry

We’ve lost our rituals of grieving & of collective grief. #CovidMemorialDay

The rituals of grief may be gone but the grief remains

We’re not shown or taught how to deal with loss: our own or other people's. We often bottle up grief as a result - suddenly weeping at the death of an elephant on a @Disney wildlife show while our own grief goes unprocessed.

Today is #CovidMemorialDay in the USA

It’s a day to put aside our differences & allow ourselves to feel & share the loss

It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, red or blue, @piersmorgan or @Piers_Corbyn, we all have the same need to grieve.”
#COVID19