Being open about my grief has been healing (I still have a long way to go). Our culture is uncomfortable with the idea of taking time to actively mourn. We are not comfortable talking about death. If we stuff our feelings down and do not talk about them, write about them, or find some way to push them out, they fester like an untended wound. In my small corner of the world, I want to encourage people to take all of the time they need to mourn, to talk about their person, to share how they feel. I want to be there to listen to them and their stories. I want to be part of a movement to normalize mourning rather than avoiding it.