Grieving easefully
A friend mentioned that the subject of dying and grief had come up in her meditation group. Probably not coincidentally,…
Category: I will miss you
All the seeds failed, except one
I’ve been known to cry at the movies, but I don’t think I’ve ever cried over a book … until…
The roots of cypresses
I don’t know the Italian word for “mensch,” but Rocco Schiavone is a mensch. He’s the detective in the eponymous…
Words hurt, especially when you can’t find them
Joan Didion called it the “vortex effect,” the sudden overwhelming grief triggered by a memory. After ten years that feeling…
Heart flowers
Last Sunday, March 1, was the birthday of my youngest sister Mary Teresa. I’ve written about her before. She did…
Yahrzeit
Laura died in the early hours of the morning of Saturday, January 30, 2010. Here is the story of…
Turmoil
You never know how you’re going to react in the face of the loss of a loved one. When they…
Ten years
“And sometimes anniversaries hurt . You feel them in inexplicable aches in your body, or in a general unease that…
Friday, November 22nd
Today is Friday, November 22. John F Kennedy was killed on Friday November 22 in 1963. I still remember standing…
You will help me, Bulus and God.
On September 22, 1941, the start of the year 5702 in the Jewish calendar, Renia Spiegel wrote in her diary…