Author Archives: Laura B Hayden (Blog Writer, Sevenponds)

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”

- William Shakespeare
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“Going, Going, Gone” by Bob Dylan

A song about letting go

  An accumulation of life’s challenges has worn down the speaker in Bob Dylan’s “Going, Going, Gone,” and, at first, it sounds as if he’s about to snap. I’ve just reached a place Where the willow don’t bend There’s not … Continue reading

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Stephen Colbert Opens Up to Anderson Cooper About Loss

The two men commiserate on their kinship with grief

Fans of celebrities are often as obsessed with how the rich and the famous grieve as they are with their ultra-lifestyles. The difference is that while the VIPs’ day-to-day extravagances remain out of reach for the average onlooker their struggles … Continue reading

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“Blue Nights” by Joan Didion

Didion's second memoir of great loss suffered within two years -- this one focusing on her adult daughter

As husbands and wives age together, it is inevitable that one spouse will outlive the other. Burying one’s child, however, defies the natural order of generations and seems that much more insurmountable a loss. In 2005, the iconic American journalist … Continue reading

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Another Look at the Rainbow Bridge

A writer who produced Will and Grace revises the myth to accommodate cat behavior

Based on a number of sentimental poems penned during the 1980s, the Rainbow Bridge has come to be recognized as an imaginary place located on the threshold of Heaven where our furry pets’ spirits go when they die. According to … Continue reading

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“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

- Audrey Hepburn
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