#MondaysMoments
August 28 2017
Attending to your own legacy is an important function of your life now. One way to do that is to write an ethical will or “legacy letter.” Rabbi Jack Riemer and Dr. Nathaniel Stampler say, “…the im...
Monday, August 28, 2017
August 21 2017
What is your legacy? It is defined as a gift of property, especially personal property, and as money, by will or by bequest. It is also defined as anything handed down from the past, as from an anc...
Monday, August 21, 2017
August 14 2017
We’ll continue the discussion of what remains without their physical presence – legacies. A few months ago I facilitated a group discussion about legacies – what they are and what we hope they will...
Monday, August 14, 2017
August 7 2017
This month our theme is “Without Their Physical Presence, What Remains?” As a spiritual director and celebrant, I have the privilege of sitting with individuals and families to hear the stories of ...
Monday, August 7, 2017
July 31 2017
A third connection between grief and freedom is the recognition that as Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and author, once said, “There is in all visible things…a hidden wholeness.” Even when yo...
Monday, July 31, 2017
July 24 2017
Related to the freedom to grieve we discussed last week, a second connection between grief and freedom is finding freedom within the grief. When you allow yourself to feel and express your gr...
Monday, July 24, 2017
July 17 2017
As we explore connections between grief and freedom, we’ll first look at the freedom to grieve. Everyone’s grief experience is unique and giving yourself the freedom to grieve in your own way is an...
Monday, July 17, 2017
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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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