Category Archives: A Rite of Passage


”Waking or asleep, / Thou of death must deem / Things more true and deep / Than we mortals dream, / Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?”

–Percy Bysshe Shelley, from "To a Skylark"
Posted on March 4, 2014 by Christopher Hewitt (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

Read the full poem here. More from A Right of Passage: Memorial Songs: “Casimir Pulaski Day” by Sufjan Stevens  “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”  Memorial … Continue reading →

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”Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.”

-Jackie Kennedy
Posted on February 18, 2014 by Kimberly Lane (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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”Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I have a call.”

- Sylvia Plath
Posted on February 4, 2014 by Zoë Byrne (Editor in Chief, SevenPonds)

Read the entire poem, “Lady Lazarus”, here. More in “A Rite of Passage”: 

Memorial Music: “Kettering” by The Antlers “If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a … Continue reading →

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“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”

--Henry Miller (1891-1980)
Posted on January 21, 2014 by MaryFrances Knapp (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.

-Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
Posted on January 7, 2014 by Kimberly Lane (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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”Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel’s just got his wings.”

- Clarence the angel in "It's A Wonderful Life"
Posted on December 24, 2013 by Zoë Byrne (Editor in Chief, SevenPonds)
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