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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: Kristen Capano (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
What is a Death Care Midwife? An Interview with Akhila Murphy: Part One
An expert shares her advice on alternative ways to personally memorialize your loved one
Today SevenPonds speaks to Akhila Murphy, a trained death-care midwife who has been practicing since 2013. Murphy’s job is to help families create beautiful personalized memorial services for loved ones inside their own homes. In this first part of our … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Death, Death-Care Midwife, end-of-life, Family, Final Passages, Full-Circle Living & Dying Collective, green burials, Grief Loss and Bereavement, Guide, Home Funeral, Home funeral rituals, Home funeral service, Hospice, Interview, Life, Loved One, Memorial, Mortuary, Parlor, SevenPonds
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Changing the Perspective on Childhood Cancer
September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
The month of September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time set aside by numerous organizations across the United States to honor the children and families who are touched by this disease. Childhood cancer is a topic about which most … Continue reading
“Death Sets a Thing Significant” by Emily Dickinson
A poem about cherishing what our loved ones leave behind
Even if you’re not a huge fan of poetry, you’ve most likely heard of mid-19th century poet Emily Dickinson. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson spent most of her life completely isolated from the outside world. Her work was … Continue reading
Our Weekly Tip: Remember Your Loved One with a Celebration of Life
Use balloons and photographs to honor and remember the person who died
Our Tip of the Week: If you’ve lost someone you admired or cared about, chances are that person had similar feelings towards you. While their death may signify a disheartening time for you, it’s likely that they would still want … Continue reading
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged alive, Death, Dying, end-of-life, Life, Living, Martin Luther King Jr., Quotes, Quotes about Death, Quotes about Life, Right of Passage, SevenPonds, Unknown
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“Bridge to Terabithia” by Katherine Paterson
A novella that introduces the imagination to the reality of loss
One of my favorite childhood memories is of snuggling up on the living room couch with a good piece of fiction. I was an avid reader. For the most part, reading was my escape from the real world, a world … Continue reading
