At Long Last, Hope!
A 60-year-old woman battles a fourth recurrence of cancer and is told by her oncologist that the chemo she has been receiving for the past few months has been ineffective. A 52-year-old man living in a...
View ArticleA Lesson In Service
He took a towel and tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel around his waist. John 13:4-5 When my sisters and I...
View ArticleAppreciate Each Day
~ Reflections of yesterday, Flashing in my mind. Simpler times, youthful times, Left so far behind.
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I Come From a Long Line of Beautiful, Strong and Capable Women by Jassy Watson
In 2014 I wrote about the passing of my dear Pop and the painting that burst forth when I was told very clearly that Pachamama had come to accompany him on his return. It is with a very heavy heart...
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When a Grandparent Is Ill: 8 Little Steps to Make it Easier on the Kids (and...
By Ellen Iscoe, Ph.D. You may realize it gradually or find out through a dreaded call in the middle of the night. Your mother or father is ill, no longer the healthy family member you and your children...
View ArticleToo Young...Too Soon
Five years after my son’s death, I am doing okay. There are times when I start to cry without even t
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A very modern death
My father had what I consider to be a typical British (Caucasian, middle class) funeral. Only entering a church for the traditional hatch, match and his own dispatch, he had given me no indication of...
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A Dirge by Eric MacKay
I. Art thou lonely in thy tomb? Art thou cold in such a gloom? Rouse thee, then, and make me room,— Miserere Domine! II. Phantoms vex thy virgin sleep, Nameless things around thee creep, Yet be...
View ArticleThreatened With Resurrection
Life is hard! Sometimes it really sucks! Oh, we each have our diversions and delusions. Some of us, by virtue of birth or other unmerited good fortune, have the resources to pretend otherwise. We...
View ArticleForty Days, Day 39--Were You There?
Where were you when? It’s a common question asked of people who were alive when certain events took place. In relatively recent times the question might be “Where were you on 9/11 when the World Trade...
View ArticleEaster And Your Fear Of Death
The Fountain Kathy and I just finished watching The Fountain, starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz
View ArticleUnfair Check of Faith! and "About Death" #13
New to this series? I’ve been blogging my experience with “a large brain aneurysm” for family
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Easter eve
Glorious Collect for Easter Eve Grant, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying our corrupt affections we may be buried...
View ArticleHospice Series (Part Three): Hospice in the Home
The original idea of hospice was to help patients stay at home and receive comfort care and pain management without having to go to a facility. Although services have since branched out to include care...
View Article"We Are They"
“I have died once and I ain’t gonna die no mo.” These words echo from the annals of black history as slaves who had experienced “being born again” would let you know by their conversation and conduct...
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Death and Renascence
Chapter 4 Tally: An Intuitive Life, All Things That Matter Press PJ described the hours and days that followed. “There was a terrible clacking noise beating on his eardrums. Loud. Sharp. Penetrating,...
View Articledie for something or live for nothing.
“It’s worse to live for nothing than to die for something” These are the immortal words of Rambo, or something close. However I am not sure there can be much truth in the statement because I don’t...
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Down from the Heavens
I love you, Lord , my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I called to the Lord...
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Living (and Dying) with Seniors
Viola is my seniorist senior dog in my pack. We make exceptions for Viola at this age. She doesn’t have to go upstairs behind the gate when I go out. She doesn’t have to sit/stay to get her dinner....
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Scaling Walls
http://www.undiscovered-yosemite.com/ He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me....
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