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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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Tag Archives: Graceful Mournings
Artist Depicts Transformative Nature of Death in Visionary Paintings
Autumn Skye Morrison finds beauty in the big picture
Autumn Skye Morrison has been called a visionary artist, but it could just as easily be said that she simply sees the bigger picture of our time on Earth. Her paintings are saturated with themes of birth, death and transformation, … Continue reading
Our Weekly Tip: Turn Your Grief Into a Gratitude Meditation
Use this simple process to turn painful thoughts into evolutionary tools
Our Tip of the Week: Grief and loss are deeply intertwined. Why would we grieve anyone if we felt that there was no loss? It can be useful to notice, then, what has been lost. The first thing that may … Continue reading
Posted in Practical Tips
Tagged A Grief Observed, Aging in Harmony, Graceful Mournings, Grief Tip, Hugging, SevenPonds Tips
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“A Dog Has Died” by Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda's factual ode weeps through wide-open eyes
Pablo Neruda is a great master of understatement, weaving the sparest details around the complexity of loss with a cry that carries its own weight and does not ask to be comforted. The first four lines of his poem “A Dog … Continue reading
Posted in The Next Chapter
Tagged Chile, Dead pets, Death, Death of a pet, Graceful Mournings, Grief, Grieving, Isla Negra, Losing a pet, Pablo Neruda, Pablo Neruda poetry, Pet loss, Poetry
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Artist Wears Her Dead Mother’s Clothes in Self Portrait Series
Artist Karolina Jonderko processes her mother's death in touching self-portaits
What does one do with the abundant daily materials that a loved one leaves after they pass — the clothes, kitchenware, trinkets, and the like? Artist Karolina Jonderko found herself in such a situation after the death of her mother in … Continue reading
“Love Dogs” by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Poem describes the how grief is the remedy, not the enemy, of a broken heart
Thirteenth century Persian poet Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi is widely known for his poems of ecstasy, devotion and praise for the great mystery of the human experience. His poem “Love Dogs” speaks of a cry of longing from both the perspective of … Continue reading
Inuk Woman Wins National Award for Memorial Quilt
Memorial quilt depicts strength in times of hardship
Veronica Puskas, who grew up in Nunavut’s Kivalliq region, won Quilt Canada’s 2014 prize for Excellence in Work by a first-time exhibitor. Her award-winning artwork “Pillars of Strength” is based on a photograph that depicts two figures — her mother … Continue reading
