WELCOME TO OUR BLOG
Welcome to the SevenPonds.com blog – a community-driven extension of SevenPonds.com! I hope you find comfort and community in the resources and stories featured here. I’m always happy to hear from readers and can be reached at suzette@sevenponds.com.
FEATURED
-
“As Tears Go By” by Marianne Faithfull: How a poignant song gained gravitas through the artist's life experiences -
“The Sea” by John Banville:
An astounding representation of the grieving mind -
Funeral Favors Offer Visitors a Tangible Memento: Printed or engraved items allow for a personal touch
-
Categories
Tag Archives: Nature and death
Adrian Arleo’s Sculptures About Loss Meld Nature with Humankind
The sculptor crafts haunting displays that represent loss, death and rebirth
When we die, our bodies eventually revert back to nature, allowing new life to occupy the space that we’ve left behind. Few artists are able to capture this complex cycle of death and rebirth as accurately as Adrian Arleo. Her … Continue reading
Our Weekly Tip: Take Refuge in Nature’s Tender Touch
Timeless techniques for navigating grief with natural materials
Our Tip of the Week: Spending time in direct physical contact with the elements offers a chance to slow down our troubled minds to the pace of a flower’s unfolding, to offer up our hearts to a gust of wind … Continue reading
Growing Wild: The Path to Natural Burial
Eloise Woods Natural Burial Park allows the dead to become one with the forest
In Eloise Woods Natural Burial Park, of Cedar Creek, Texas, there are no headstones or mausoleums. GPS coordinates mark the plots and there are detailed paper maps, but the monuments that display gravesites in conventional cemeteries do not exist at … Continue reading
“This grand show is eternal. The dew is never dried all at once; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
- John Muir (1838-1914)
More from “A Rite of Passage”: Funeral Music: “Today’s The Day” by Lucy Kaplansky Memorial Music: “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel Memorial Music: “Gaudeamus Igitur” is a tongue-in-cheek graduation song that tells us to make … Continue reading
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Death, Death Quote, John Muir, John Muir quotes, John Muir sayings, Muir, Muir woods, Nature and death, Sayings About Death
Leave a comment
