The grieving process has been supplanted by the modern equivalent of the freak show. Each spring at home my daughters await the birth of the baby goats. Each year kids are born and each year at least one is lost. Some have been runts, others just too accident-prone. My daughters have hosted funerals for these animals that mimic the funerals they attend in town.
Death is a familiar in our home.
It is given its due and has a place in the cycle. These are the rituals that need to be strengthened. Brit Griffin is publisher of HighGrader Magazine . She lives in Cobalt, Ontario.