"When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
"There are as many sorrows as there are people who feel them and there are no rules... It is solitary... Grief is such a lonely thing. There is no-one in it with you - others may grieve for the same soul, but they do not grieve exactly for what you also grieve. No-one has lost precisely what you... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, August 26, 2024
"It takes so little... to lose it; grief and disappointment can take one's faith away so easily that you might wake one morning and have none left." - Susan Fletcher, T he Silver Dark Sea. What were your views of God or some higher power before your loss? Have they changed as a result of it? For... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, August 25, 2024
"Century after century, the belief that an individual's physical health was independent of his or her emotional health has so dominated medical thought that there has even been open contempt for anyone who would dare to claim that a person's physical well-being is the sum of its internal and... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, August 24, 2024
"Grief is beautiful?' She thought it was the most dreadful feeling possible. At best, she viewed the world through a haze, and at worst, everything looked black. 'It means you've loved another with all your heart,' Luka said. 'What's the use of being alive if you've never loved like that, not even... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, August 23, 2024
"An observant friend will recognize the signs of the rise of grief: eyes that easily well with tears, a smile that is difficult to sustain, a tendency to withdraw. And ultimately, perhaps we each need to create our own symbol of grieving - to wear our version of black, or maybe to color with black... Sign in to see full entry.
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time. - Jon Kabat-Zinn When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. - Saint Francis de Sales... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
"Laine taped the last box shut. That was it, then: All of Gavin's belongings put away; some for charity, some for the dump, some to be saved for a happier 'one day' that Laine felt, right now, was as distant as the stars." - Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path. Packing up someone's personal effects can... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
"She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she'd... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, August 19, 2024
"Before I lost my father, I never understood the rituals surrounding funerals: the wake, the service itself, the reception afterward,the dinners prepared by well-meaning friends and delivered in plastic containers, even the popular habit of making poster boards filled with photos of the dear... Sign in to see full entry.