HOW LUCKY I AM TO HAVE HAD SOMETHING SO HARD TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO
– WINNIE THE POOH
Living While Dying and “Bathing in Joy” – A film that has the capacity to transform
"Bathing in Joy" "Bathing in Joy" (Check out the trailer to this beautiful film below, and consider...) I was struck by this comment from a man looking directly into the camera, and sharing this heart-felt sentiment as he was preparing to die. Those who work in the...
2016 May Have Been Kinder Than We Think…..
2016 may have been kinder than we think... A dear friend and colleague who works in end-of-life care, Jane Duncan Rogers of www.giftedbygrief.com , wrote to share that she lost a long-time friend a couple of days ago. Yep another one in 2016. Jane is no stranger to...
Suffering Leads to Grace
This is a tough one, and maybe you don't agree--but that 's OK... Our personal frameworks of the world and how it works may determine whether this is true or not or each of us... He speaks of a couple whose home burnt down while they were out, and their three children...
“Grief Informing the Good – Good Informing the Grief”
How would you get through the death of a child? Not sure I could. I seek these kinds of stories. It is the triumph of the human spirit that always moves me, and offers an invisible helping hand when my difficulties, though they pale in comparison, seem huge. The...
The Great Equalizer….
"Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing." Ralph Waldo Emerson Sorrow", grief and death are the great equalizers. That's why I am so in favor of them--it connects us all the more dearly, don't you think?...
Why Doctors Die Differently?
In this interesting and *kind* article, the author lays out the fact that although many doctors order up loads of life saving measures for their patients–they rarely do so for themselves. I say “kind” because as you read, the tone is not one of blame, but feels more...
3 Minutes of “heart” you don’t want to miss
So get the tissues out… Do you care like this?? This young brother and sister team is a world unto itself, with the brother as it’s gatekeeper and caregiver…the sister, a happy and knowing recipient. These kids remind us of what it is like to care so deeply, so...
