Frozen Hollow
My apologies for my intermittent postings. It seems that, despite my best intentions, I am unable t
View ArticleWhen the ones we love leave; Grief and adaption.
July 20th, 2016 Well I suppose it was a rather pertinent time for me to begin writing a blog. This playful game of life has certainly been fond of throwing me curve balls, of late. I’d have been...
View ArticleThe hardest goodbye; Knowing it's the last one.
I don’t think on that day I quite realized the gravity of the situation. Or maybe I did. Grams had had a hemorrhagic brain bleed on the cerebellar cortex, which sits just above the brain stem. She had...
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A Better Plan #FridayFictioneers
Photo credit @Adam Ickes A Better Plan Wanting to disappear, I curled into myself and buried my head under the soft pillow. If I made myself small enough, I could hide from the last hours of my dad’s...
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Episode 18: Impermanence - Nothing lasts and everything changes
https://itsjustlifepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/ijlpodcast18ed.mp3 Today Gia and Karen start the podcast with a new weekly feature: Something Positive. Today’s positive story is about a...
View ArticleBe Gone!
How I loathe you death As you sweep in and steal Taking for your own All we hold precious Contemptuous, bitter vengeance Reaping souls selfishly In a covetous act of wanton destruction Destroying...
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Rest In Peace, Little Bea
Up in the sky a star is born So luminous and bright With distant mew midst Milky Way Our dear one sleeps tonight A far off dot, yet always near Taken away too soon Our loss is yet but heaven’s gain...
View ArticleFrom Dust To Glory
From Dust To Glory For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. — Ecclesiastes 12:7 (NLT) Most of us would agree with the statement that we won’t live...
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A Bad Day in EMS
What does a “bad day” in EMS look like? First you have to ask if it’s a “bad day” for the EMS provider…. or for the EMS recipient. As a provider, I’ve had all kinds of days. I’ve had days where I feel...
View ArticleOn Death & Dying
Anyone who is familiar with this subject knows about Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Kubler-Ross spent he
View ArticleThe envelope
I don’t know why I wanted – no, didn’t want, absolutely did not want, but needed
View Article30 Poems I Am Most Proud Of #11
I grew up with the North Yorkshire Moors as my playground. I can remember my friends and I used to pretend that there were wolves on the moors and that they were after us. This beautiful memory and...
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Kundrol Dragpa's Teachings
Base, Path and Fruit If Buddha of the Base is not recognized, Buddha of the Path does not illuminate in the mindstream. When Buddha of the Path does not shine in the mindstream, Buddha of the Fruit is...
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Has anyone had an encounter with a ghost in real life?
My first experience happened when I was about six years old. I shared my bedroom with my older brother and we always slept with lights on. Our bedroom’s door had a window with frosted glass, so I...
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All Because of a Dragonfly... Talking Death With Children
Our Memory Garden at school is a raised bed of beauty; flowers, sculptures, American flags, and a collection of painted rocks, all to mark classroom pets and loved ones who have died over the years....
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Exposing Children to Death
I learned early on that death is a part of life. I come from a large Irish/Italian/German family that is constantly in flux. Birth and death are part of the life process and both are cause for...
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Possum
If she could take my pain away…she would. But it is mine to own. She can search the hurt…but the hunt would remain…not hers. So often…the urge rings out… ‘What can I do to help?’ Yet, these barren...
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Just Your Imagination on Steroids
You know those people who say they have absolutely no fear—of anything? Sorry, but I need to call bullshit on that. While residing in the dorms during my sophomore year of college, there was a guy...
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Even doctors find it hard to think about mortality
I bought Paul Kalanithi’s memoir, “When Breath Becomes Air,” the day it came out and set it down on my kitchen table unopened. Several of my best friends from medical school did likewise. We had read...
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