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Our Annual Seven Holiday Gifts for Someone Who Is Grieving, 2024 Edition: Gracious gifts that spread love and beauty -
“Making Mobiles” by Karolina Merska: An artist’s manual on how to create beautiful Polish pajaki -
“Hands Up to the Sky” by Michael Franti & Spearhead: A surprisingly upbeat song about acknowledging both loss and the beauty of life
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Author Archives: Juniper Quin (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
“We need scores of things to die every minute in order for us and our way of life to keep on going… Life doesn’t feed on life. Life doesn’t nourish life. Death feeds life.”
- Stephen Jenkinson
“Try to Praise the Mutilated World” by Adam Zagajewski
Funeral poem finds something to celebrate in the hardest of times
“Try to Praise the Mutilated World” (2002) by Polish poet Adam Zagajewski resonates with his characteristic themes of night; dreams; history and time; infinity and eternity; silence and death. By facing the world’s sorrow with clear eyes, yet turning again … Continue reading
Our Weekly Tip: Update Your Legal Will to Include Minors and Dependent Adults
If you are responsible for the care of another person, you may need to update your will
Tip of the Week: If you have another person in your care such as a child or dependent adult (such as an eldery or otherwise incapacitated person), you may wish to update your legal will to reflect this. If the … Continue reading
Professional Pallbearers Dance the Dead Out in Style
Cross-continental tradition honours the dead with coffin choreography
If you attend a funeral in parts of West Africa and the Southern United States, you may witness some fancy footwork by professional pallbearers who specialize in dancing with the dead. These dancing pallbearers often sing gospel or other sacred … Continue reading
Study May Reveal Why Women Often Outlive Men
"Natural Killer" cells more active in women than men into senior years
In virtually all parts of the world, women live longer than men. This discrepancy has been remarkably consistent for centuries, yet science has thus far been unable to determine why it exists. Now, a study reported in the multidisciplinary journal Mechanisms of … Continue reading
