Carol Henderson on Writing and Grief
“Writing saved my life,” said Carol Henderson. Most of us in the Farther Along writing group would say the same thing, …
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More Daffodils
Inspired in part by Carol’s post on this blog, Back Yard Alchemy, I walked outside to my thawing back yard …
Writing Toward Healing sessions planned
Writing Toward Healing: 2016 FREE Workshops for Adults Grieving the Loss of a Loved One Carol Henderson, author of Farther …
A heart’s constant project
The prompt for this writing was the poem “Want” by Carrie Fountain. Read the whole poem here. These lines were …
Writing toward healing reading on Monday, November 30
If you’re in the Winston-Salem area, or not too far away, do join us on Monday night, November 30, 6 …
Grief therapy two (Sometimes it is not where you expect it to be or I am part of all I have met and then some)
More about “grief therapy”*: I remember a small epiphany I had after a worship service at a retreat in the mountains …
Grief therapy
My aunt Lucile lost her 21-year-old daughter and unborn grandchild in the summer of 1965. Brenda was one of my …
Fall Writing toward Healing workshops planned
Carol Henderson, author of Farther Along: The Writing Journey of Thirteen Bereaved Mothers and Losing Malcolm: A Mother’s Journey Through Grief, …
The shade of a tree pointing toward infinity
Even on these oppressive early summer days with their scorching 98 degree temps, I sit under the Kwanzan cherry tree next to …
Well of Mercy: Three Haikus
Last week, two of us spent some retreat time at Well of Mercy in Harmony, NC, a ministry of hospitality …
Healing Connections
Three of the Farther Along writers, Monica Sleap, Beth Baldwin and I, spoke and shared the story of Farther Along: …
Hats for us
Dottye brought a few of her collection of 100+ hats to our recent writing retreat, and we enjoyed trying on hats and …
Fourteen daffodils
I woke from a weird dream a day or two after our Farther Along group’s recent writing retreat. We had …
Good grief
While reading Patrick O’Malley’s Getting Grief Right (New York Times Opinionator column for January 10, 2015), I thought again about how each …
Thoughts on breath
Breathing has been at the center or sometimes the periphery of writing prompts our group has responded to over the …
Change
I am my grandmother’s granddaughter, and I mark changes, always have. I wrote the following piece a few years ago …
Star light
We bought a new star this year, a Moravian star with punched design. As it hangs from the porch, it …
More on Of Time and the River and October
Today is the birthday of Thomas Wolfe, born in 1900 on this date. And it’s the birthday of a dear friend, …
Of time, space, traveling and October days
Time and space. This little world of time and space. Beyond this world of time and space. I’ve been rereading …
YOLO
Originally posted on Farther Along:
I first heard the term YOLO – acronym for You Only Live Once – last fall…
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