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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)
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
- William Shakespeare
Posted in A Rite of Passage
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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
Posted in Expressive Music
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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
Posted in Something Special
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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
Posted in Lending Insight
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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
Posted in Cultural Perspectives
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“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
- Audrey Hepburn
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Audrey Hepburn, garden quote, Inspirational quote
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