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Love this. The Saturday of Christs fallow state or pre- resurrection and the Jewish sabbath parallel each other. I celebrate Shabbat every Friday night and (try to) rest on Saturday. It’s truly a time for inactivity before the “rebirth” on Sunday.

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Five months ago I decided to resign a job that was not aligned with my values. This is the longest I have been "unproductive." It has taken me months to realize that I needed to go through this transition, (my own Saturday), in order to prepare myself for the next chapter. Here's to normalizing the blank spaces.

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Beautiful. So many new to me ideas that contest old ways of thinking, and bring meaning to what my body/brain/soul has always asked for between projects and "little deaths," that I've often so firmly resisted.

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Exceptionally written - feels like you've described my current status down to a tee.

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Thank you. Very relatable. Grief circles and grief rituals are of deep interest to me lately. Specifically how indigenous cultures come together as a community to support the individual 'in the tomb' to aid in the digestion and integration of grief so they can 'go into the womb' and be reborn.

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the title grabbed my attention but the article was not what i expected.

anyway, on the topic of tomb to womb.

my grandmother went from her mothers funeral to the hospital to give birth to my mother on Sept.5, 1929

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Thank you! Timely and gratefully welcomed.

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