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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: Laura B Hayden (Blog Writer, Sevenponds)
Our Monthly Tip: Write a Journal that Will Benefit Your Well-being
A hand-written record of your feelings can benefit your health
Our Tip of the Month Writing about how you feel physically and emotionally has immediate and long term benefits. You can focus on your health, grief, confusion about an issue — any conflict or stressor that’s on your mind. Letting … Continue reading
“Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant
This classic poem is often a teen's introduction to deeply thinking about death
The 19th century poet William Cullen Bryant could not recall when he wrote “Thanatopsis.” Similarly, I long ago lost count of how many of my high school students had not thought much about their mortality before we turned to the poem in our American Literature … Continue reading
Intergenerational Learning Brings Together the Young and Old
Combining a nursing home and preschool benefits the elderly and the kiddies too
A few years ago a preschool in Seattle, Washington, distinguished itself in newscasts across the nation because it operated within Providence Mount St. Vincent, a senior care center in West Seattle, Washington. At “the Mount” the children and residents come together … Continue reading
The Rate of Veteran Suicide Has Increased 35 Percent since 2001
A Pulitzer Prize winner recently wondered why
One week after the culture shock over two celebrity suicides – designer Kate Spade and bon vivant Anthony Bourdain’s — let’s remind ourselves that both tragedies were single instances out of the average 123 Americans who commit suicide every day. And when … Continue reading
Disney’s “Coco” by Lee Unkrich
Pixar's Best Animated Film of 2018 is a matter of life and death
Every Pixar computer-animated film takes on a new artistic challenge. In “A Bug’s Life” the audience views the world the way an insect would – from the ground up. “Inside Out” metaphorically animates how the interior landscape of our minds function. … Continue reading
