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The Invisible String
Less than a week ago we celebrated the life of my mother-in-law after her unexpected death. Our grief is made less only in knowing she lived a good life filled with the richness of family and faith...
View ArticleEnd of life lessons from the littlest of us all
What is the old saying about Monday Morning Quarterbacking? And the saying about the View from the
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Beginning with Death on the Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete by Carol P. Christ
Our first ritual on the Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete is a death ritual in which we honor the memory of those who have gone before us. Like so many things on the pilgrimage, the death ritual evolved. I...
View ArticleLessons Along the Path
Intellectually, we all know our lives have a path along which we must travel. The length of that path is undetermined, and often we’re not sure where it leads. There are many inflection points,...
View ArticleFading Away
My father has Alzheimer’s. It’s an insidious disease, and has slowly been stealing him from us over the last several years. This morning he was reading the paper. He looked up from the paper and asked:...
View ArticleDeath Songs
My friend Jeannie and I are at a Sweet Honey in the Rock concert in St. Paul, Minnesota. One of the group’s founding members, Ysaye Barnwell, steps to center stage and sings what she calls her “death...
View ArticleBook Review - Help On Death & Dying
Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Jeyran Main Founder & Owner of: Review Tales Millionaire’s Digest Team, Author, Books, Writing, Successful living & family & life. On Death...
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Poetry as a Cadence of the Spoken Word..
http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/1800/454/ Poetry is something that I have never indulged much in, and...
View ArticleHow to Live Longer
I’ve been taught … that ‘Death’ is the greatest lie ever told. We do not die … we transform. The consciousness that we are uses an energetic physical body while here on Earth, but when it leaves, it...
View ArticleBook Review - Help On Death & Dying
Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Jeyran Main Founder & Owner of: Review Tales Millionaire’s Digest Team, Author, Books, Writing, Successful living & family & life. On Death...
View ArticleThe Death of My Mother: A Child Broken
The source of my life is a unique individual; my mother. Whether she is the ultimate mother or less than perfect, she is the woman who gave me life, who carried the glow of my soul within her body and...
View ArticleThree Teenage Girls Facing Grief Together
Years ago while working at a hospice I helped with grief counseling sessions of young people, ages 10-13. One group session that has forever left an imprint on my heart consisted of three teenage...
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Our Memory Garden
As Memorial Day approaches, I think of our Memory Garden at school. It is a place to host our Memorial Day Remembrance for children and families, and a place to celebrate the hero in all of us on...
View ArticleMagical Thinking in End-of-Life Issues
Recently I had a chance to see how the human heart and spirit can overrule the rational mind, even in hypothetical circumstances. At a local educational event on palliative and hospice care, a woman...
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Spotlight on They Serve Bagels in Heaven by Irene Weinberg
Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2 edition (December 10, 2001) Language: English ISBN-10: 1493618660 ISBN-13: 978-1493618668 ABOUT THE BOOK: THEY SERVE...
View ArticleA Strange Gift
Yesterday was the first time I’ve ever done post-mortem care on a little patient, minus the partial experience I had as a nursing student a few years ago. Surreal hardly begins to describe the...
View ArticleStaying in the Hard Thing: When Glory becomes Gritty
I seem to live in a perpetually tired state nowadays. If I’m looking for the easiest, most honest response to “How are you?” my default answer will be, “I’m tired.” Tired as a mom of two littles. Tired...
View ArticleHow is Work
It must seem odd, why I hesitate. It’s a pretty standard question in standard conversation. “How is work?” But I hesitate every time, and I think at times I stare at the person questioning me. I’m...
View ArticleA Shared Sense of Rest
She was not my patient, but I had briefly met her earlier in the day, and my co-worker asked if I might be free to go in her room and just be with her awhile while my co-worker caught up on charting....
View ArticleThe Messy Untangling
Today, I’m feeling it. The untangling after a particularly intense shift on all levels. I walked into a shift with a family whose child had taken a big turn for the worse and they had no guarantees...
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