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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: Life
”Halo” by Melissa Stein
A captivating poem that offers an intimate look at death
Melissa Stein is an incredibly talented author. The San Francisco poet’s work has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies, and for good reason. Her writing is visceral — the imagery it conjures is at once heartbreaking and uplifting. … Continue reading
Posted in The Next Chapter
Tagged Beauty, Death, Dying, Halo, Halo Poem, Hope, Life, Melissa Stein, Poem, Poems about Death, Poems about Life, Poetry, The Next Chapter, Writing
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“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.”
- Bill Vaughan
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
- Mark Twain
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
- Mary Oliver
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Hope, Life, Mary Oliver, Peace, poet, Poetry, Quote, Quotes about Life, Quotes About Living
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How It All Could Be: A Work Book for Dying People and for Those Who Love Them” by Stephen Jenkinson
Stephen Jenkinson's little book offers mighty ideas to rethink dying and grieving in a death-denying culture
Stephen Jenkinson (MTS, MSW) is an author, teacher, spiritual activist, farmer, subject of the film Griefwalker, and former palliative care professional. His 2009 publication, How It All Could Be: A work book for dying people and for those who love … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Caregiving, Death, end-of-life, Grief, Lending Insight, Life, Palliative Care, SevenPonds, Stephen Jenkinson
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“Death is just nature’s way of telling you to slow down.”
- Dick Sharples
Posted in Laughter is Medicine
Tagged Comedy, Dick Sharples, Hope, Humor, Laughter, Laughter and Death, Laughter is Medicine, Life
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