The Shapes of Love

What if grief isn’t love with nowhere to go?After watching Is God Is and spending a weekend supporting a family through an end-of-life transition, I found myself questioning one of the most common phrases about grief.Because grief doesn’t always look like sadness.Sometimes it looks like laughter in a hospital room.Sometimes it looks like anger.Or relief.Or storytelling.Or a cup of coffee when there’s nothing left to fix.In this episode, I explore the idea that grief may be less of a destination and more of a crossroads—a place where love encounters change and takes on new forms.We talk about complicated relationships, hospice, revenge stories, Alua Arthur’s challenge to the phrase “grief is love with nowhere to go,” and the question I’ve been carrying lately:What is grief trying to grow? Get full access to Soft Endings at lettn2mec.substack.com/subscribe