the Sack of Sorrows Project
When we tend to our sorrows, we move through them to cultivate joy.
When we neglect our sorrows, they grow thick and weedy, choking out the flowers in our lives.
Join Zak Foster and Janelle Hardy in a special two-part project intended to help us liberate our sorrows in a safe and communal space so that we can live our lives more fully.
In Part 1: Through Sorrow to Joy, Janelle guides us through body-based writing exercises to help us put into words the embodied roots of our sorrow.
In Part 2: the Sack of Sorrows, Zak invites you to send your sorrows to be stored unopened and unread with others in our hand-sewn collective container, where they will be held for a season and then ritually released in a fire ceremony.
The inscription on the back of the Sack of Sorrows is a line from a poem by Rainier Maria Rilke. Click here if you’d like to read the original poem. All photos by Robert Alan Grand