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Sweetness for Your Sorrow
Sweetness for Your Sorrow

Sat, Aug 31

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Panorama Natural Burial

Sweetness for Your Sorrow

a National Grief Awareness Day honey tasting event

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Time & Location

Aug 31, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Panorama Natural Burial, 3550 Reas Ford Ln, Earlysville, VA 22936

About the event

National Grief Awareness Day, also known as National Bereavement Day, was founded by Angie Cartwright in 2014 after experiencing many losses. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the very real presence of grief in life, to normalize it, to honor its intensity and also its functionality, and to encourage us to learn how to create supportive spaces for our own grieving and those who are experiencing grief around us. Loss and change, big events and small, can lead us to experience grief. On this day we honor the wide range of textures and hues, sensations and expressions grief can take for us, as individuals and as a whole.


Grief is as ancient and true and intrinsic and creative and expressive and native and core to us as honey is to the bees. And honey is as connected to death and loss and sorrow and pain as it is to life and pleasure and sweetness and good fortune and knowledge and truth and well-being. Once used by the Egyptians to embalm the dead, honey was - and still often is - considered an elixir of life, capable of exalting the gods, curing illness, and healing wounds.


We invite you to the burial ground in honor of Grief to share in good company and sweet honey harvested by the wonderful farmers from Soul Soleil Farm who tend to our resident bees.


We so very much hope to see you there!


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This event is open to everyone of all ages. It will be held outdoors so please plan accordingly. In the event of rain we will meet undercover in the barn. Regardless please dress for the weather and bring water, sunscreen, bug spray, and anything else that might contribute to your comfort and well-being!

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3550 Reas Ford Lane.    Earlysville, VA 22936.    (434) 424-1103


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