The Grieving Process
My Voice – How Social Media Helped Me Survive Loss
My Voice When I Could Not Speak – How Social Media Helped Me Survive Loss (This is a piece I wrote for a Blog Site on the topic of social media.) When Emilee died on January 31 2017 from Adeno carcinoma pancreatic cancer, my world fell apart, and I died right along with her. I…
Read MoreA Journal Entry of Emilee’s and Celine Dion’s Music, and Twinkle
https://youtu.be/rn4F4HhXrVI Celine Dion …..Miracle, A Celebration of New Life Emilee would listen to this every night to help soothe her and calm some of her anxiety. She liked it so much she bought one for all the family members. Her favorite nursery rhyme was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and we used to sing it…
Read MorePoem – Falling
This poem came as I was feeling pulled to sadness, as I approach the one year anniversary of Emilee’s death from this plane of existence and into another. FALLING When I am feeling blue I have half a dozen things to, but don’t want, to do Then suddenly goes the floor It recedes, drops and…
Read MoreOn Childhood Trauma And Adulthood
David Whyte, ….on childhood trauma…from his book titled The Heart Aroused (1992). Now, David Whyte is a poet, not a pschologist. But, he is an insightful poet and he does his research. I enjoy his own poetry, the poetry he uses to expound on his thinking, and his thoughtful insights. “It is generally accepted in modern…
Read MorePoem – Layers by Stanley Kunitz – of Life And Loss Change And Hope
Someone in my poetry group shared this poem, not hers, by Stanley Kunitz. It spoke to me, and thought it might speak to others as well. “Live in the layers”…I really like that. It so fits with a mindfulness view of life. He died May 14, 2006, at age 100. He was an American poet appointed…
Read MoreThe Life Train – Trains Are Such Good Metaphors
My neighbor sent this to me. I thought the gesture was sweet, and so is the story poem. Author unknown at the moment. Life Train At birth we boarded the train and met our parents, and we believe they will always travel at our side However, at some station our parents will step down from…
Read More‘ What Just Happened, And What Is Going On
Seriously, LOL, I don’t know what happened…..it saved an apostrophe (in the title box) as a post…I left it there…LOL…I don’t know what key or key combination I hit and my post screen was gone, and it saved an apostrophe as a post….and it would NOT let me cancel the post and get rid of…
Read MoreThe First Year Without Emilee On The Holidays
I guess between the elves and fairies and some help from the angels, the star is now lit I guess between the elves and fairies and some help from the angels, the star is now lit. So, some words about the struggle whether to put up a tree or not, and whether or not to…
Read MoreA Poem By Gwen Flowers Entitled Grief
A Poem By Gwen Flowers Entitled Grief Grief leaves you changed. It changes, but it never leaves you. I like this poem. I retyped it below in case you have difficulty reading it in the picture. I like it because I feel this. Grief is not something that you “get over”. Yes, it morphs and…
Read MoreThe Lure Of A Chance To Win
I must discuss why it is, that I can be just like a little psychology lab rat, you know, the ones that are in an enclosure, and they will push a lever to get a pellet of food, and depending on how you reward them with the pellet schedule (every lever push, or every 5…
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