"In the support group, the counselor had said: When you lose a loved one, you feel as if you're inside a confined space. Everyone else will seem to be careening along outside of this space. In time, you will become aware of an opening you are going to have to step through. It might be... a new job,... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Friday, December 9, 2022
"Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive." - Richelle E. Goodrich Try to give at least three good hugs to someone who needs one today. That means both arms around the other person and a solid, six-second... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, December 8, 2022
"Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life." - Aberjhani - Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry Try to find an object in your home or something in... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
"In this contemporary culture, what could be an effective means by which we might be able to cue one another to say, Take it easy on me, I'm grieving? Maybe if we reinvented, or re-established the practice of wearing black and created our own symbol of grieving - to wear our version of black, or... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
"Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another's circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others." - Sandy Oshiro Rosen, Bare: The Misplaced Art of Grieving and Dancing Even if you have... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, December 5, 2022
"The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under the old cedars... I am finding it a little hard to say that I felt them resting there, but I did. I felt their completeness as whatever they had been in the world. I knew I had... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, December 4, 2022
"And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever, but only the heavy callouses visible at the sides of his hands seemed real. It was only the callouses that appeared to be familiar and believable." - Kent Haruf, Eventide... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 3, 2022
"If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?" - Jodi Picoult - Keeping Faith Your moments of joy are to be savored, but they won't prevent grief from creeping in at times. Once you make peace with that, the moments of grief won't catch you off guard... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, December 2, 2022
"Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke." - Ambrose Bierce, The Moonlit Road, and Other Ghost and Horror Stories. How can you measure grief? It is impossible. You need to deal with it when it flares up and be... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, December 1, 2022
"Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward." - Bridget Asher Love and grief are intertwined. You know that better than anyone Sign in to see full entry.