What A Wonderful World Spending this past weekend living between hellos and goodbyes, fairs and funerals, it became clear what a gift I was given. […] Read More
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The first funeral I attended was a fairly somber affair in the mid 1980’s. Most people attending wore black or dark colored clothes. The music […] Read More
Walking through my own grief and accompanying others in theirs, the lyrics from The Prayer, “Watch us where we go; help us to be wise […] Read More
Weeds and grief such untidy parts of life. Just when we think we’ve got the yard back in order a weed pops us, and sometimes […] Read More
People often share their uncertainty about what to do for a grieving person. They are afraid of making a mistake, saying the wrong thing, or […] Read More
Although not the hospice provider, Friends of Hospice has been augmenting and supporting hospice and end-of-life care since 1994. We’re a network of volunteer friends, […] Read More
I am, perhaps, not the first person you’d peg as having a serious interest in talking about and studying death. In my late twenties, my […] Read More
How our story closes matters: words that rang so clearly in my ears. These words came from Dr. Gawande after sharing the personal journey of […] Read More
We live in community but I didn’t really understand this until I heard Kelley Scott, Executive Director for Clarehouse in Tulsa, OK, speak of dying […] Read More