griever

While earning his Master of Social Work degree at the University of Washington, Dizon interned at local bereavement centers — Virginia Mason Grief Services, The Healing Center in Ravenna — and noticed something: He was a griever.

Known as “wind phones,” they are meant to carry the griever’s words to the wind in phone booths or isolated swaths of forests.

One griever read from scripture and said that “of course, anyone who was murdered in the name of God, and absolutely if he was murdered by Palestinians, it is in the name of God, then there is purpose in that terrible tragedy.”

I did exactly that, because I’m a good listener, and because Delaney’s urge to have the world around him gain fluency in his pain is familiar to any griever.

Our House Grief Support Center: Grief support groups are specific to the age of the griever, length of time since the death and the relationship to the person who died.