Sometimes, when you are in the moment, you fail to recognize the gravity of it. And sometimes…you get it. As I was at my computer, working away the other day, I realized that my wife was receiving her very last treatment for cancer. While I was sitting in my office. I grabbed my keys and … Continue reading Navigating the Divide: Part 2–Dark Cloud Mode
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The Goodness of Grief: Part 4–Everybody’s Thing
My parents have this saying that I just love, “Everybody’s got their thing.” And what they mean by that is every person we encounter is carrying around with them a trauma, a burden, a rejection, a hurt, a grief. Everybody. I would add this: The only people that don’t have a “thing” are the people … Continue reading The Goodness of Grief: Part 4–Everybody’s Thing
The Goodness of Grief: Part 1–Heart Ache Ain’t No Metaphor
I haven’t blogged in a while because our family is reeling from some really difficult news. Suddenly, reality has shifted. The life as we had known it is gone. And while there is a great deal of hope that we can make it through this thing, we also recognize that we may not come through … Continue reading The Goodness of Grief: Part 1–Heart Ache Ain’t No Metaphor