I had thought all the grieving had been done and the healing and restoring could happen. I thought that I had grieved through the past twelve months, watching my mother slowly decline and continue to fight to stay with...
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My sister, brother and I have been helping our mother live for the past few years. Outside of my family and work, that was my purpose and where I directed my energy. Now, a month after her passing, I...
I am a buoy moving up and down in the presence of the vast ocean trying to stay afloat. Life has changed. It has been one month since our mother passed and a lifetime of caring about her and for...
Glenn Miller Band – Moonlight Serenade My mother is dying.We are caught in an unforgiving place of waiting and watching.Hoping for glimpses of the women who taught us the meaning of self-less, unconditional love.We keep watch as her mind...
A few months prior to my father dying, the day he died and months following, I believe I was given a gift, a reminder, of what it felt to be stripped down-bare, raw, unfiltered – my existence and purpose...
– Bittersweet Surrender – Big Head Todd & The Monsters For those who have a loved one who is going through a disease that takes away their ability to be themselves is devastating. My heart is with your...
Monday and Tuesday came and I didn’t go and to see my father. My sister flew home and was with him along with my mother and brother. After seeing him on Sunday, I needed a day or two to...
Days and months following my father’s death felt like a state of unconsciousness, of heart ache that I had never known could exist. For some reason, I had in my head that I was prepared emotionally for this depth...
– The Wind – Cat Stevens A prayer As I was still in the deep undercurrent of loss and grief, feeling the waves crash over and over without a breath, it felt increasingly harder to keep up with...
– The Waterboys – The Whole of the Moon As the age of 5, I remember being woken from my sleep to see a lunar eclipse one summer night. I remember being with my aunts and cousins in the...