#MondaysMoments
November 5 2018
Our theme this month is Conversations Count: Time for Family, Time for Talk! November is Time for Family, Time for Talk month. The Funeral and Memorial Council (FAMIC) created this event to encoura...
Monday, November 5, 2018
October 29 2018
Not only do we want to consider our own legacies, but we want to honor the legacies of our deceased loved ones too. Below are a few ideas:
Light a candle.
Make a quilt out of their old clothes....
Monday, October 29, 2018
October 22 2018
We often get caught up in our day-to-day lives and neglect thinking about legacies, including making sure our loved ones know how we feel about them. Stanford University created the Letter Project ...
Monday, October 22, 2018
October 15 2018
According to Allianz Insurance, legacies include four pillars: values and life lessons; instructions and wishes to be fulfilled; personal possessions of emotional value; and financial assets ...
Monday, October 15, 2018
October 8 2018
Continuing with our theme of Honoring Legacies, Shirley MacLaine starred in a movie last year entitled The Last Word. In it she asks a journalist to write her obituary and through the process decid...
Monday, October 8, 2018
October 1 2018
Our theme this month is Honoring Legacies! Whether we think about it or not, we all leave a legacy or things we pass on to others. What do you want those things to be? How do you want to be remembe...
Sunday, September 30, 2018
September 24 2018
As we’ve been talking about our monthly theme, Plan Ahead, I hope you heard the underlying message that holding death before us can help us embrace life now. I leave you this month with a poem by M...
Monday, September 24, 2018
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I wasn’t always comfortable with the concept of, “Dare! Silence.” I grew up in a house with five kids and two parents, so silence was not something that happened often. When I began to practice a s...
December 4 2023
This month’s theme is “Dare! Silence.” Silence is very important throughout our lives, especially on our grief journeys. Silence can be intimidating, and we often try to fill it when we encounter i...
November 27 2023
To close this month, please read Anne Hillman’s poem, “We Look With Uncertainty” as you notice “something new is being born in” you while making new treasured memories.
We look with uncertainty
be...
November 20 2023
My favorite holidays is Thanksgiving. In terms of the meanings behind other holidays, I’m all in. But I can do without their hype and commercialization. So as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, ...
November 13 2023
As I was writing this month’s posts about our theme of “Memories Become Treasures,” the song “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac started to play. When our youngest child went off to college, this song mad...
November 6 2023
This month’s theme is “Memories Become Treasures.” In a recent grief education and support group I was leading we talked about looking at old photographs of deceased loved ones and how those pictur...
October 30 2023
To close out this month, read these words of poet John O'Donohue:
The dead are not distant or absent. They are alongside us. When we lose someone to death, we lose their physical image and presenc...
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