This last Easter season was a sober time for our community. There were a number of local tragedies, national losses, personal laments. What we were feeling in the wake of a cancer diagnosis we were seeing on the faces of those we share our lives with. At first I thought we were projecting a bit. … Continue reading The Goodness of Grief: Part 9–Sometimes You Have To Blow Up A Few Balloons
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The Goodness of Grief: Part 2–Breathe Into It
While there is great suffering and pain in loss, there is this other level of suffering and pain that comes with the fear of loss. I don’t know where, if anywhere, fear fits into the classic “grief cycle”, but it seems to me to be a potent part of grief, if only we are allowed … Continue reading The Goodness of Grief: Part 2–Breathe Into It