Blessings
My dear friends, I am thinking of you mightily this Christmas season. There is much to do to prepare for …
Tag Archives: death of child
Much Obliged
It is a warm August morning in 2000, and I am sitting in the car parked just outside the small …
Kindness and Episodes of Sunshine
I still listen for weather reports. The first post I wrote for this blog was full of them. I noticed …
Reflections of blue sky
On a gray day when I saw no blue in the sky, I saw this reflection of pieces of blue …
Water and Blooms and Light
Once more I have been thinking of ponds, lilies and dazzle. Or maybe more specifically, water and blooms and light. At …
Murder, Mystery and Mayhem
Last Saturday night there was a murder at my house. It was part of a drama as outlined in an …
More Daffodils
Inspired in part by Carol’s post on this blog, Back Yard Alchemy, I walked outside to my thawing back yard …
Seasonal Change
I remember, when we were living in California, how much I missed the seasons. My husband planted a little maple …
Irene Kelly Johnson 8/25/21-9/14/15
On 9/14/15, I lost a significant person in my life, Irene Kelly Johnson. I always loved her name. She was …
Sea glass
I was asked to write a blog post for our local TransitionsLife Care. I was asked to write some words …
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 …
another treasure
I found this note folded and tucked into the small yellowing envelope containing Ryan’s teeth that had been collected by the …
From Ryan
Sometimes we stumble across gifts from the past when we least expect them. Last week, while packing to move, I …
Fourteen daffodils
I woke from a weird dream a day or two after our Farther Along group’s recent writing retreat. We had …
Ash Wednesday 2003
I watch as the ashes move from the clay pot to my forehead. A few fall down on my face, …
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 …
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 …
Behind Closed Doors
Prompt: Behind Closed Doors Immediately I think of privacy – in my own room. Also, the oft spoken phrase of …
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