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My family did not handle heartbreak well. We didn't talk about what had happened at all and there was probably a lot of drinking involved.

I'm thinking about your book and how your kids teachers handled talking about difficult parts of our shared history. That is totally different than when I was in school and seems good and healthy to me. When I was teaching music I found it (music) to be a fantastic container to talk through what was difficult about what we were feeling, or what was difficult about our history, or what was difficult about current events (see Michael Franti "Same As It Ever Was." Actually I used Michael Franti a lot).

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