Bridges and baccalaureates
I love baccalaureates and graduations. I never thought I would say this—not I, the one who might once have chosen …
Tag Archives: Grief
“High Functioning Bereaved Parents”
Here are some reflections from my late night/early morning reading: Jeremy Shaton wrote in a New York Times blog about …
Learning to breathe
I realized it today. I’m living again. I said it out loud. Those first ten years, (give or take a few), …
Beach Retreat
Beach Poem, Oct. 2005 Women walking Sitting talking Laughing crying over Living and dying Running sunning Having funning Daring dreaming …
Where am I going?
The following Haiku poems were written in response to a reading by Carol Henderson at a recent writing retreat. The …
IHOP and the Octopus
Thursday, March 28, 2002 found our family at IHOP in Charlotte to eat with our dear friends Jerel and Susan …
Apollo’s Chariot
This is the first time that the anniversary of Wes, Andy, and Ryan’s deaths has “lined up” with the lunar …
An Invocation…
Loving Father, Nurturing Mother, We ask your presence with us at this hour. We celebrate today our observance of New …
Shouted prayer
My prayers sometimes pause in the snatches of rainbow light that play upon the wall, the refrigerator, the floor, as …
fulfilling a sacred contract
Howard Thurman, theologian and Harvard professor, said, “There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is, …
A place that no longer is
Prompt: Write about a place that no longer is April 22, 2007 I finally framed that little snapshot that had …
Talking to Grief: an acrostic poem
Peggy Clover May 5, 2005 Tell me, Grieving Heart, how do I live now? Agonizingly alone, aloof, shattered Longing for …
Retreat
The mountains – quiet, peaceful solitude. Rhododendron, ferns, thistles, outcroppings of rocks, tops of trees swaying in the breeze, split …
The Thorn
I was over at the Cancer Center yesterday. While waiting in the lobby, I glanced through a scrapbook which was …
Hope and A Place That No Longer Is
This piece was written April 22, 2007 to a prompt at a weekend retreat: Write about a place that no longer …
Random thoughts and comments and writings
What does grief look like? Grief is like the crazy aunt or befuddled uncle that the family tolerates and knows …
A bereaved mother speaks
On Facebook Peggy shared this opinion piece from The Washington Post by Ann Hood, and I thought that those of …
Farther Along 