Daring to Grieve Together: A Response to Death in the Tree of Life.
I want this daring to slow down amidst chaos... to reach for one another to say, “Hello, I am here, I don’t have the answer, but I will stand with you.”
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Carriers of Life: A Personal Letter to Mourning Mothers.
Recognition of mothers aborting beyond their will establishes a link between women who have experienced carrying life across time and space. The history of the collective female body becomes clear, and its well of empathy, loyalty, connectedness and emotional resonance becomes available.
Reach Through: On Grief, Love, Loss and Letting Go.
I think often how Life got the seasons all wrong. Brent and I were supposed to bury Mom and Dad. Not the other way around.
To Live Is to Die in the Most Beautiful Way. {poetry}
And yes, I am addicted to dying
The everyday mundane and insignificant ways to die
The dying that realizes death as part of life
"Our ways of dying are our ways of living"
I find myself deliberately leaving traces of me everywhere
Mourning Through Drug Addiction.
Father Gary stood under his umbrella, reading scriptures from the Bible as everyone continued to cry a sad cry. Greg was only 28 years old when he overdosed. He had just been released from doing a three-month vacation in the county when he died in the bed of a girl who was merely a stranger to ...