Inspiration: Listening to how people deal with cultural dark times~~layoffs, foreclosure, financial loss, spiritual emptiness, social shame, identity quakes, death of a loved one~~caused a reflection on darkness. What urges do we face? How do we deal with them? How do we remember them? So, I wrote: Dark Urges
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I also reflected on what has happened in my life and in the lives of people I know when we have denied the darkness. So, I wrote: Darkness Denied
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