Reflections on This Grief Thing In Preston

An excerpt from "A Space For Grief (This Grief Thing In Preston)" by David Harradine.

This is our first shop.

Before we arrive, we talk about what might happen.

We acknowledge that nobody might come.

We remind ourselves that we’re first and foremost trying to make grief visible, trying to refuse all the subtle and blunt and careless and well-intentioned and cruel ways it gets silenced and diverted and ignored.

We tell ourselves it’s OK if nobody comes.

Because even the presence of the project here, in this shopping centre, in this city, in Preston, makes it possible for conversations to start.  

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