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Our Weekly Tip: Memorial Remembrance Tree
A remembrance tree makes for a moving centerpiece at your memorial or celebration of life ceremony
Our Tip of the Week: Memorials are not only about remembering your personal relationship to a loved one who has died, but about the coming together of all those who care deeply for him or her as well. A delicate … Continue reading
Posted in Practical Tips
Tagged Celebration of Life, Comfort for Grief, Memorial, Memorial Idea, Memorial Tree, Remembering, Remembrance, Remembrance Tree, SevenPonds, Tips, Yew
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Witnessing the Changes Around Funerals and Burials
My evening attending a discussion on new practices and needed policies
I attended a recent event in San Francisco to help support the green burial and natural death care movement. For those who are unaware of just what green burial is you can read about it on SevenPonds here or natural … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Changes Around Funerals and Burials, Founder of Grounded Guild, Green Burial and Natural Death Care, Janelle Orsi, New Practices and Policies Around Green Burial, SevenPonds, The San Francisco Sustainable Economies Law Center, Tom Long, Urban Death Project
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A Moment of Life and Death
Sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch vanitas paintings weave life and death into a single, still moment
Life is fleeting, and death apparently eternal. Still life paintings that came out of the Netherlands in the late 1500s through the 1700s, known as vanitas, gather symbolic objects of death into a memorialized moment, halting the processes of both … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Adrian Van Utrecht, Art, Death in art, Dutch Painting, Life and Death, Painting, SevenPonds, Still Life, transience, Vanitas
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“Healing After Loss” by Martha Whitmore Hickman
This book offers page-by-page “Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief”
I was rummaging through a used bookstore in San Francisco when I stumbled upon this great little healing book that is still in print. Beautifully structured, Martha Whitmore Hickman’s Healing After Loss, Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief is a … Continue reading
Our Weekly Tip: Seeds of Solace – A Twist on Tradition
A memorial service idea that will remind loved ones of the ever-changing nature of grief
Our Tip of the Week: When friends and extended family come to pay respect to the departed, they often arrive at the service bearing flowers. While this is a thoughtful gesture, both a nod to tradition and a lovely gift, … Continue reading
Posted in Practical Tips
Tagged Grief, Memorial, Memorial Garden, Planting Seeds, Seeds of Solace, SevenPonds, Tips, Traditions
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“A lifetime’s not enough for the beauty of this world.”
- Mary Oliver
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Beauty of Life, Famous Quotes, Mary Oliver, Quotes, SevenPonds
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