WELCOME TO OUR BLOG
Welcome to the SevenPonds.com blog – a community-driven extension of SevenPonds.com! I hope you find comfort and community in the resources and stories featured here. I’m always happy to hear from readers and can be reached at suzette@sevenponds.com.
FEATURED
-
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
-
Categories
Author Archives: Laura B Hayden (Blog Writer, Sevenponds)
What Do We Need to Know About Green Caskets?
An interview with Jonas Zahn, founder of Northwoods Casket Company, Part One
In this first part of a two part interview about green caskets, I am talking to Jonas Zahn, the founder of Northwoods Casket Company in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Jonas built his first casket two days before Christmas in 2002 — for his grandfather, who … Continue reading
“Passing On” produced by Arizona Public Media
A brave and practical look at end-of-life conversations
While 92 percent of Americans say it’s important to discuss their wishes for end-of-life care, only 32 percent have had such a conversation, according to a national survey taken this year. The documentary “Passing On,” narrated by NPR journalist Scott Simon, … Continue reading
New York Academy of Art Students Help Identify Migrants Who Died at the Border
Unidentified remains can be reconstructed to a reasonable likeness
Joe Mullins, a forensic artist with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, cannot give the gift of life back to eight unknown migrants whose dehydrated remains were found in the Arizona desert near the U.S.-Mexico border a few years … Continue reading
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers
The 1962 graveyard smash has become a perennial fall favorite
Long before the Halloween slasher film franchise began in 1978, pop culture’s slant on the holiday traditionally dedicated to remembering the dead was showcased on the dance floor — to the tune of “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers. The “mash”– short for … Continue reading
“Affirmation” by Donald Hall
Such a positive title for a very difficult truth
When Donald Hall, the 14th Poet Laureate of the United States, died this summer at age 89, he left behind a body of work preoccupied with death, loss and senescence — a beautiful word for the not-so-pretty process of deterioration … Continue reading
