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Author Archives: Suzette Sherman (Founder, SevenPonds)
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Beautiful Offerings to a Loved One
Taking inspiration from Japan's memorial celebration ritual of beautiful floating "boats"
Getting inspired by other cultural practices can be a wonderful way to gather ideas for a memorial ceremony you may be creating on your own. When you lose someone you loved beyond words, putting an event together worthy of who … Continue reading
George Washington on Reflecting About Life and How to Circumvent Regrets
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one"
My Most Unusual Valentine’s Day Ever Resulted in an Epiphany About Life
What the most underrated part of life really is
Boy did I have an unusual Valentine’s Day this year, and it brought to me the most amazing epiphany! This past year resulted in a love not real (that’s the short version), followed by many Valentine’s Day gifts given and … Continue reading
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Tagged Drugs and Rock & Roll, Emotions, Epiphany, Gifts, Life, Love, Plutchick's Wheel of Emotions, SevenPonds, Sex, Unusual Valentine's
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Japanese Death Poems, Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
What words are as packed full of meaning and metaphor then those of a haiku?
I’ve been fascinated by haiku ever since I first laid eyes on one. Their intrinsic nature is to elicit mystery swirling around their brevity of words. Not only are they the shortest poems known to mankind, haiku unfailingly evoke breathtaking … Continue reading
Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without by Natasha Josefowitz
One woman's grief over the loss of her husband is shared in page by page moments
The book, “Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without,“ is visually written to appear like poetry, but it’s not really poetry as we know it. Yet there is indeed something poetic about its approach. More stream of consciousness, with carefully … Continue reading
