We obviously wanted it to go a different way on the court. … We want them to have special memories about it. “We walked them and wanted them to take a moment: ‘You are in a historic building - take the pictures, capture the moment. “We walked in yesterday,” Iona head coach Billi Chambers said after the Gaels’ Saturday loss to Duke. It is a grievous truth to have to face, but it’s one that can provide incomparable meaning if it can be processed: 24/7/365 women’s basketball coverage, written, edited and photographed by our young, diverse staff and dedicated to breaking news, analysis, historical deep dives and projections about the game we love.įor countless athletes, this weekend, the sport that has defined their lives is suddenly one in which they no longer participate in. The Next: A basketball newsroom brought to you by The IX. The Next, a 24/7/365 women’s basketball newsroom But the fact that everything else does not think twice of your loss is not a cruelty as much as it is a beauty: it ensures that you remain present within the rest of the world, that you are still a part of nature, tuned in to other aspects of life which persist even in the face of monumental grief.
If you surround yourself with loved ones, then you will be afforded space and care by those who hold you dearest. It is a reminder that grieving emanates from something specific but that the rest of life can go on. Grief needs time and space to process, time and space which our culture so rarely affords.īut there is a beauty in how the world keeps turning, regardless of what you’ve lost and what you’re going through. That in the face of my needing to process, basically every aspect of life remained unfazed, continuing the next day as it did the last. It is something I observed up close this past weekend, through Duke and Iona’s losses in the NCAA Tournament.įor a while, I found the world continuing to turn in the face of my own grief to be quite cruel. And thus grief management is one of the most powerful skills people can have in terms of adapting to the absurdity of life. It is an immensely complicated emotion, and I am fascinated by the sheer magnitude of ways large and small, that we as human beings create and involve ourselves in things which must inevitably end. One of my favorite things to write about is grief.
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