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KAAN Architecten’s New Visitor Center at the Netherlands American Cemetery: A new edifice adds to the cemetery site while enhancing its original purpose: Honoring America's wartime dead -
“Prayer” by Lizzie West: Singer-songwriter reminds us that our loved ones live on in the sun and rain -
Rutgers Health Study May Improve End-of-Life Care: Medicare data analysis finds that people typically follow one of nine paths
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Author Archives: Christopher Hewitt (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
Would You Grow Vegetables in a Graveyard?
Incredible Edible in the UK plants gardens in every public space, including graveyards
To many of us, cultivating the land where we’ve buried a loved one is no strange practice. Every Easter after church (the one day a year we did go to church), my family and I would drive to my father’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Garden, Graveyard, Graveyard Gardening, Incredible Edible, Todmorden, United Kingdom
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“A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” by William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth captures grief over a lost loved one in eight short lines
How many lines does a poet need to write in order to record a loved one’s death? Of course, the story of a person’s death, as with their life, goes further than any number of words can express. British Romantic … Continue reading
Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of love
Happy July 4th! Every week, it’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us to 2005: … Continue reading
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley speculates on the end of mankind from an incurable plague
Known widely as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley horrified us with her notorious monster brought to life with more humanity than we care to admit. She wrote much more than Frankenstein, however, and her later, lesser-known novel The Last … Continue reading
Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of love
Remembering Summer Days! Every week, it’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us to 2005: … Continue reading
The Chinchorro Created Mummies Thousands of Years Before the Egyptians
The ancient Chinchorro people from South America may have been the first to explore mummification
When most people hear the word mummification, they probably think of Ancient Egypt. They probably recall the Egyptian kings, their pyramids and their golden sarcophagi. But few people consider—or even know about—the Chinchorro people and their mummification practices. And why … Continue reading
