#MondaysMoments
May 7 2018
Our theme for May is Nurturing, Where Do You Begin? If you begin with the first thing before you right now, it can lead to many gifts. This makes me think of a family whose patriarch recently...
Monday, May 7, 2018
April 30 2018
As John Burroughs said, “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” Connecting with nature affects our bodies, minds and souls. I encourage you to get more of tha...
Monday, April 30, 2018
April 23 2018
When a drunk driver killed Paula D’Arcy’s husband and two-year-old daughter, her grief journey drew her to the ocean. In the Koch Funeral Home sponsored documentary, Voices of Grief: Honoring the S...
Monday, April 23, 2018
April 16 2018
Nature has long been a source of healing, from its raw materials to its soothing images and sounds to its infinite lessons. In the Christian tradition, John Scotus Erigena, an Irish philosopher and...
Monday, April 16, 2018
April 9 2018
Continuing with our Healing? Engage with Nature! theme, we would like your input on the possibility of holding a retreat in nature entitled "Healing with Love.” When you’ve lost a loved o...
Monday, April 9, 2018
April 2 2018
Our theme for April is Healing? Engage with Nature. Losses come in all shapes and sizes as does the healing that follows from them. One result of a loss is often a future you hadn’t expected. A few...
Monday, April 2, 2018
March 26 2018
In addition to making things matter with choices shortly after death, Alan Wolfelt, an author, educator and grief counselor, says that one of the needs of mourners is to search for meaning and “mak...
Monday, March 26, 2018
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December 11 2023
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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