Tag Archives: grief

Mind: Talking about suicide so we decrease the number of people who die by suicide.

Suicide is not reversible. Stop before you do it….. I wanted to post on mental health in May but did not because I wanted current statistics: When I last researched mental health five or six years ago, the World Health … Continue reading

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Essay. The Storm.

Twenty years ago, there was a blizzard on April first, with snow that came over my knees. This year, on the anniversary, there was a smaller storm. My life is captured in the brackets. Then, we thought we knew what … Continue reading

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Essay. My Life in Pets VI. Lily and Dying.

I wrote about Lily’s vibrancy in my last post, and she was vibrant up to the moment she died. I know because I spent that long day with her, including that final moment. How do I describe what cannot be … Continue reading

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Essay. My Life in Pets III. An Afternoon through Teddy’s Eyes.

Spring colors are here, the yellow of daffodils, cream and pink blossoms on shrubs and trees, a thousand shades of green. One year April brought a blizzard, and over two feet of powdery white stuff covered the yard and buried … Continue reading

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Essay. Rings and Ripples.

This story begins with three rings. When I was a child, my father lost his wedding ring. He looked in the car, in grocery bags, along the walk from garage to door. We looked in the house. We looked until … Continue reading

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Essay. The Fire that Tempers.

At one moment on a Saturday, I was hosting an e-mail friend from Sweden who was attending a course in our area and wanted to see the region. We drove up the coast and then came back to our house, … Continue reading

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Essay. An Afternoon Through Teddy’s Eyes.

This is the anniversary of a freak Spring blizzard, when over two feet of lovely white stuff suddenly covered the yard and buried shrubs. It started as a gift day, a Monday where no one went to work. I enjoyed … Continue reading

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Essay. Lily in December.

Six years ago the Earth paused for a fraction of a second before picking up its rotation: my dog Lily died. That morning, I woke to blood around the bedroom, some of it so abundant it had mounded on the … Continue reading

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Essay. Shadowland

Everyone has days that are remembered in light, either the bright light of a warm outdoor day or the soft light of an emotionally warm moment or an evening to remember. Everyone has days that are remembered as dark, sometimes … Continue reading

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Essay. Meetings and Partings.

 I wrote this last year, but we continue to have meetings of wonderful individuals entering our lives and we will face partings. I thought of this reflection on love and loss last week when 26 people were killed simply because … Continue reading

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