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Tag Archives: Poetry
Exploring Grief, Loss, Death and Dying
Bloggers exploring the end-of-life through poetry, art, and prose.
Exploring Death This anonymous blogger created the blog entitled SarSaparillameliSSa to explore her world through photography and the written word. “The Tree that Bleeds” is a poem dedicated to exploring death. Here’s an excerpt: Long sunset shadows chill his bones. … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Art, Blogging, Death, Grief, Healing, Loss, Poetry
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“Life” by Anna Barbauld
Anna Barbauld's poem questions life, not death
“Life,” by Anna Barbauld, is a unique poem; rather than question what death is, and wonder what happens to us after we die, Barbauld ponders what exactly life is. In her view, life is the active force, not death. Life … Continue reading
“Requiem” by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson drives a crucial point home
I’ve been thinking a lot about boldness lately, about saying what you want to say when you want to say it. This concept of simply stating what you mean is certainly at work in “Requiem,” by Robert Louis Stevenson, one … Continue reading
Posted in The Next Chapter
Tagged Accepting Death, Literature, Poetry, Requiem, Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”
-Erik H. Erikson
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Children and Death, Death, Death Saying, Death Saying Goodbye, Erik H. Erikson, Life, Poetry, Saying
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An Interview with Dr. Nader Shabahangi
The president and CEO of AgeSong Institute opens up about elder care and our fear of aging
Nader Shabahangi, Ph.D., is a licensed psychotherapist based in the Bay Area. Through his work at the AgeSong Institute and its elder communities, he has become an advocate for elders and for programs that provide more comprehensive elder care. His … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged AgeSong, Aging and Elder Care, anti-aging, elders, grandparents, Poetry, senior community, seniors
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”I shift my pillow closer to the full moon.”
- Saiba, Died on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, 1858 at the age of fifty-one.
