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.
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KAAN Architecten’s New Visitor Center at the Netherlands American Cemetery: A new edifice adds to the cemetery site while enhancing its original purpose: Honoring America's wartime dead -
“Prayer” by Lizzie West: Singer-songwriter reminds us that our loved ones live on in the sun and rain -
Rutgers Health Study May Improve End-of-Life Care: Medicare data analysis finds that people typically follow one of nine paths
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Tag Archives: Seven Ponds Lakes
Why Traditional Coffins are Going Under
My Cameo Visit to Aurora Casket Co.
As we begin spreading the word about SevenPonds, it’s only natural we take a trip to Michigan (given that our business is named after the Seven Ponds lakes located there). We hit the Detroit area circuit just a week ago … Continue reading
Love and Death, Carried by Fire
Is Cremation the New American Way?
“Let not their dust be parted for their two hearts in life were singe-hearted.” — Purified by Fire Our world is always changing; and today, the scattering of cremation ashes onto the open winds ritualizes the loving act of letting … Continue reading
Dying is Not Always a Sad Process
My grandmother's glorious last hurrah
We think of dying as something sad — a path paved only with despair. But my grandmother Ida taught me otherwise. One day, at age 81, she awoke with difficulty swallowing. My mother took her to the doctor, who fed a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dealing with an Illness, Life Celebrations, Living While Dying, Seven Ponds Lakes
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An Unexpected Death Brings Our Family Together
One winter night in 2005, I received a phone call – one of those dreaded calls we all know could happen at any moment, try as we might to forget it. But I will never forget the warbling pitch of … Continue reading
SevenPonds
Our Beginning
While this marks the first entry into the SevenPonds blog, this is not the very beginning. The beginning was all the summers I spent with my Swiss-born grandparents, Otto and Ida Gilomen, at their home on the shores of Seven Ponds, a group of seven small glacier-cut lakes in Metamora, Michigan. The person I am today is greatly shaped by the time I spent with my grandparents and my heartfelt memories of Seven Ponds. Both my inspiration for SevenPonds.com and my progressive views about the end of life originate at the Seven Ponds lakes, where my grandparents’ ashes are scattered.
Life is an amazing process full of intense experiences all culminating to an inevitable end. How that end comes about is a completely different experience for each of us. The end of life should be treated as an important occasion, just as every day of our life should be. Continue reading
