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Category: Grief

The sweetness of 2020

I don’t want to pretend for a second that it was great. It was full of rawness and grief and … More

2020, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Grief, Happy New year, Max Richter, Mental Health, New Year Letter, Reading, Writing

What you read in 2020

Here are the blog posts that you read most in 2020 As I click through the links I am surprised … More

Alzheimer's, Blogging, Dementia, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Loss, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

This was a good week

Third Sunday in Advent Today I pause from giving you updates from grief’s front line and take a leaf from … More

Advent, Anna Kamienska, Clive Wilmer, Gratitude, Grief, Harold Budd, John Freeman, Karen Walrond, mindfulness, Shawna Lemay, Simon Parke

The Sky Over My Mother’s House

The Sky Over My Mother’s House It is a July night scented with gardenias. The moon and stars shine hiding … More

Grief, Jaime Manrique, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

What you missed

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listento … More

Advent, Brad Aaron Modlin, Lifesaving Poems, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot

Before

Before No shoes and a glossyred helmet, I rodeon the back of my dad’sHarley at seven years old.Before the divorce.Before … More

Ada Limon, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Writing

A holiness to exhaustion

First There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself, filling out the form so my TA … More

Carrie Fountain, Exhaustion, Grief, James Schuyler, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

You’ve got to write it all down

The unexamined life’s no different from                              … More

Bereavement, Charles Wright, Grief, Life Lessons, Life Writing, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

The Thing Is

The Thing Is to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held dearcrumbles … More

Ellen Bass, Grief, Life Lessons, Life Writing, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets

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