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2023 - August - CDT - Helping Hands - Bereavement Gatherings and Events
Bereavement Gatherings & Events
Anne Frank wrote, “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside. . . I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
2023 - July - CDT - Helping Hands - "Helping" Someone Who is Grieving
“Helping” Someone Who is Grieving
I answered the phone and could tell the caller was unsettled. A relationship and job possibility had both ended for him. Grief had come for a visit, but I didn’t ...
Monday, July 31, 2023
2023 - July - CDT - Learning to Live: What's Your Story?
“Helping” Someone Who is Grieving
I answered the phone and could tell the caller was unsettled. A relationship and job possibility had both ended for him. Grief had come for a visit, but I didn’t ...
Monday, July 31, 2023
2023 - July - Gazette - Death is the Memory of the Living
Death is the Memory of the Living
My sister-in-law passed away a year ago. Last week on the anniversary date my thoughts returned to all the events that led up to that fateful day. Our heads remem...
Thursday, July 27, 2023
2023 - June - Gazette - What Is Enough?
What Is Enough?
What is enough? During a recent gathering for elders, I posed this question to the group and was impressed by the wise answers. One woman said that as far as “stuff” was concerned,...
Thursday, June 29, 2023
2023 - June - CDT - Helping Hands - End-of-Life Doula
“Dance . . . is about intention, and not about the specific movements or actions themselves.” When I read these words in Anna Halprin and Rachel Kaplan’s book Making Dances That Matter, they remind...
Thursday, June 22, 2023
2023 - May - Gazette - Med-KNIT-ations
Med-Knit-ations
There was a lot going on in my world one day a few weeks ago. My 92-year-old father was in the hospital with heart issues, and I had two presentations to make that day at the local...
Thursday, May 25, 2023
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2023 - November - Gazette - Dare! Silence
A lot goes on in the silence.” These are words I often share because silence is a big part of my work. For example, I ask for moments of silence when officiating at memorial and funeral services. D...
2023 - Nov - CDT - Helping Hands - Healing Through the Holidays
Healing through the Holidays
Author, poet, and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou, wrote, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” I witness this every day in my work ...
2023 - October - Gazette - Memories Become Treasures
Memories Become Treasures
I was visiting with my mom and dad a couple of weeks ago and we started talking about my dad’s parents, who I lovingly called Grandma and Grandad. My mom shared two memor...
2023 - September - Centered - Arriving Where I Started
I love the T.S. Eliot quote, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets:
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for t...
2023 - September - Gazette - Existing Elsewhere
A few years ago I sat with a handful of adults’s in a grief gathering and listened as one mother shared her story. She told us about the moments before and after her young child’s unexpected and su...
2023 - September - Town & Gown - End-of-Life Doulas, Graveside Journaling, and Sponsoring Memorials from Afar
We hope you read the September Town & Gown article by Holly Riddle featuring End-of-Life Doula Jackie Naginey Hook.
2023 - August - Gazette - Surrender Your Soul
Surrender Your Soul
A couple of weeks ago, I stepped onto the deck of our cabin at Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park, British Columbia. It was early morning and the sun had just risen from behind...
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