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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: Zoë Byrne (Editor in Chief, SevenPonds)
Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of love
I Will Always Be Nutty for You! It’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us … Continue reading
Vietnamese Funeral Food Customs and Superstitions
An exploration into the various food customs and superstitions in Vietnamese funerals
For the Vietnamese, food plays a major role in funeral traditions, both for the person who has died and his or her surviving loved ones. The traditions commence with how the body is prepared for the visitors expected during the … Continue reading
”One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
- José Rizal
Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of love
It’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us to 2005: the moment Page Hodel encountered … Continue reading
Saving Zoë by Alyson Noël
This fictional tale of a girl who loses her sister to murder teaches readers about the complexities of complicated grief
Struggling to figure out what to read next, visiting one of my local Little Free Libraries turned serendipitous when I picked up this book with my not-quite-that-common name (and its spelling) in its title and learned that death and complicated … Continue reading
The Link Between Grey Matter and Blood Type in One’s Risk for Alzheimer’s
Researchers in the U.K. discover which blood type has the lowest risk for Alzheimer’s disease
The longer we live, the greater the likelihood we will develop some type of cognitive decline. The brain, like our other body parts, isn’t immune to the eventual decline on the road to death. While it is virtually inescapable the … Continue reading
