Tag Archives: SevenPonds

Dignified Hospice Design: Dans Arhitekti’s Hospice Facility in Ljubljana

The Power of Thoughtful, Human-Centered Design in Hospice Care Facilities
Posted on January 11, 2024 by Monica Salazar (Blog Writer) SevenPonds

Hospice care facilities present a unique challenge for architects and designers. Although they are technically medical buildings requiring functional designs to accommodate health care staff and equipment, hospices are also intimate, emotional spaces where residents spend the last moments of … Continue reading →

Posted in Soulful Expressions | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Reborn-Art Festival Breathes Life Into A Struggling Region

The Reborn-Art Festival hopes to revitalize an area affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake
Posted on July 17, 2019 by Ellary Allis (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

On March 11, 2011, the magnitude 9 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami devastated the Tohoku region of in the northeast of Japan. In 2017, musician and producer Takeshi Kobayashi founded the Reborn-Art Festival with the aim of rebuilding the … Continue reading →

Posted in Something Special | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

“The Goodbye Book” by Todd Parr

A children's picture book that addresses loss and grief
Posted on July 12, 2019 by Ellary Allis (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

“The Goodbye Book,” written by bestselling author Todd Parr, is a children’s picture book that matter-of-factly and simply addresses what it means to lose someone you love. The book features a goldfish who has lost his companion, his green fish … Continue reading →

Posted in Lending Insight | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

- Abraham Lincoln
Posted on July 4, 2019 by Ellary Allis (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
Posted in A Rite of Passage | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

A Poet Picks Up His Late Father’s Dry Cleaning

"Charity" by poet Kevin Young
Posted on June 24, 2019 by Ellary Allis (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

Poet Kevin Young’s collection “Book of Hours” features poems about the death of his late father interspersed with poems about the birth of his son. The poems are reflections on these seminal events that so dramatically influenced the lens through which … Continue reading →

Posted in The Next Chapter | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

How Can You Recover Emotionally After Causing Accidental Death or Injury?

An Interview with Maryann Gray, Part Two
Posted on June 8, 2019 by Ellary Allis (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

Welcome back to Part Two of SevenPonds’s interview with Maryann Gray. Maryann is a social psychologist and educator. She is also what she calls a CADI (Causing Accidental Death or Injury). In 1977, when she was 22 years old, an eight-year-old … Continue reading →

Posted in Professional Advice | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment