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When it all becomes too much

“There is sacredness in tears.  They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.  They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.  They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep...

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In the heart of grief, there is no grace

“And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I’ll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies.” ― Nancy Stephan, The...

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May my existence be the reason for an outline of bullets

It’s not like I didn’t know I’d turn 54 someday. Well, hopefully I’d hit 54, unless I got hit by a bus or lightning first. “Hit” is truly how this birthday felt, like hurtling face-first into cement....

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God’s little weirdos help ease my grief

Shawn Taylor By SHAWN TAYLOR Like most things that begin this way, I’d hoped, even then, that it would have a more romantic ending. While a trendy resurgence in the breed’s popularity has them...

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Grieving like a child was my path to healing

You said move on, where do I go? Katy Perry When my brother, my only sibling, was taken by AIDS on March 10, 1994 at the age of 35 and I miscarried my long-awaited, desparately wanted unborn son just...

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Letters to my father

The morning I was born you held my hand. The morning you died  I held your hand. What’s left to forgive? – Peggy Shumaker You went into hospice nine days after your 64th birthday. We didn’t know that...

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A holy thing

What a fearful What a holy What an achingly beautiful thing– To love.   There is no falling in. It is an uprising, A rebellion of breathtaking glory.   We are lifted Up. And yet we fall Again– And yet...

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Twenty three

And so I will lay you down In a field of grass, Sere and grey, Bending gracefully with the wind, And shadowing a hidden, twisted path That leads nowhere– Or everywhere. Back, Forever back, Until I...

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Laying Theo to rest

On November 9, 2013, early Saturday morning I was sitting next to my bed as my Beagle, Theo, lay dying. His breathing came out in rapid puffs with him gagging every so often. We had planned to take him...

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Faith enough

Over the course of a handful or so of years not too long ago, I managed to lose a little bit of everything – stuff, people, things of inestimable value to me – one thing after the next, again and...

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Swerving into traffic

Sherry Amatenstein, LCSW By SHERRY AMATENSTEIN, LCSW I sat pressed between my sister Barb and cousin Susan at Temple Beth-El in Great Neck, New York, fingers twisted around a Kleenex. I wondered if...

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How will I react as death comes creeping in?

I can’t escape it. Everywhere I turn, it’s in my face. Whether it’s online, a friend, a book I’m in the middle of, or, as of recent in my own life, death is all around me. It’s not something I like to...

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And now I grieve for them all

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom. Rumi I thought I knew...

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Dips and waves — reaching for the life preserver again

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment In the past two and a half months, my father died, I lost a precious...

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Head of Christ?

This past weekend, I had about an hour and a half of uninterrupted television time. It’s Easter season and I was trying to get in that cheery, “mob kills a man who then comes back from the dead to save...

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One small hominid under an eclipsing moon and our perpetual reason for hope

“Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops – at all Emily Dickinson Lunar eclipse — Credit: Steve Baroch — April 14, 2010 —...

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Remembering my friend

Last week I took a trip up to where two rivers (the Klamath and the Trinity) merge into one near the small town of Weitchepec, California. There are people up there that I love dearly, inlaws you see,...

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For me, loss is like gunshot to a veteran

I watched West Wing, Season 2, Episode 10, on Netflix where Josh Lyman blows up at everyone because he relives the trauma of being shot. The trigger was the brass quintet that he “heard” as sirens. He...

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The journey of adoption – lost and found, part one

If you do it right, children know they’re adopted from their earliest memory. Since I remember being 16 months old, I quite clearly remember the moment I was told I was adopted. It was before things...

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First-withouts – the ongoing anguish of grief

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.   From a headstone in Ireland My Rob father and my Oliver father — both my REAL fathers. I get to define what is real....

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