2018 - Nov - Gazette - Conversations Count: Time for Family, Time for Talk Month
Conversations Count: Time for Family, Time for Talk Month
A counselor ed class of Penn State graduate students recently spent a couple of hours asking one another meaningful questions such as: Wha...
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2018 - Oct - CDT - Helping Hands - National Family History Month
Remember, share your
family stories during
National Family History Month
When my grandmother was a young woman, she came from Kansas to Milroy, Pennsylvania, to visit a college friend. One day dur...
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2018 - August - Gazette - Plan Ahead
Plan Ahead
In March of 2017, a group of us sat in a circle together at the Bellefonte Senior Resource Center and talked about death. We talked about the history of our perceptions about death. We ...
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2018 - July - CDT - Helping Hands - Humor to Heal
Humor to Heal
There is a scene in the movie Steel Magnolias where Sally Field’s character is leaving her daughter’s funeral and experiences several emotions in a few minutes. She is sad, angry, co...
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2018 - June - CDT - Learning to Live - Honoring Life
Honoring Life
Before I began to work with Koch Funeral Home, I thought their work was about death. What I have learned since then is just the opposite. Their work is about honoring life. They hono...
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2018 - May - Gazette - Nurturing. Where do you begin?
Nurturing, Where Do You Begin?
The patriarch of a family I know recently died. He had been in declining health for a couple of years and near the end, his family courageously chose to bring him ho...
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2018 - March - CDT - Helping Hands - Healing with Nature
Healing with Nature
Losses come in all shapes and sizes as does the healing that follows from them. One result of a loss is often a future you hadn’t expected. A few years ago, I was grievin...
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2018 - February - Gazette - Make it Matter
Make it Matter
My husband and I attended the visitation for a family friend a few years ago. As we were greeting the family in the receiving line, I was struck by my interaction with our friend’s ...
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2018 - February - Gazette - Remembering with Love
Remembering with Love
Love. For yesterday’s celebration of Valentine’s Day, love was at its core. The Greeks had at least six different words to describe love:
Agape – love extended to all
Eros –...
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