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2021 - July - Gazette - Life with Tears & Laughter
Life with Tears & Laughter
When people from a Christian tradition provide me with the honor of officiating their loved one’s funeral services, a common scripture reading they request comes fro...
Thursday, July 22, 2021
2021 - June - Gazette - Intimacy with Disappearance
Intimacy with Disappearance
In his meditation on vulnerability, poet and author David Whyte wrote:
“…The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger...
Thursday, June 24, 2021
2021 - May - Gazette - Breathe in Moments
Breathe in Moments
One by one each of us entered the glass-enclosed circular chapel in the mountains of North Carolina. We removed our shoes and quietly sat down in a circle in the center of the r...
Thursday, May 20, 2021
2021 - April - Gazette - Tending Your Inner Garden
Tending Your Inner Garden
Wow, each spring I’m surprised. I forget how beautiful things are as nature comes back to life and I’m filled with wonder again and again. The vibrant colors of flowering...
Thursday, April 29, 2021
2021 - April - CDT - Helping Hands
After I officiated at a relative’s memorial service a few years ago, an out-of-town family member shared with me about his wishes concerning his own death. He said he wanted to be cremated without ...
Thursday, April 22, 2021
2021 - March - Gazette - Leaning into Sorrow
Leaning into Sorrow
I will never forget the time I was chatting with a group of people around a hi-top table at an evening fundraiser and was asked about my work. I explained that I work with Koch...
Thursday, March 25, 2021
2021 - March - CDT - Active Life
Comfort on Both Sides of the Parting
A very wise woman recently told me that many wedding vows are inaccurate. When the couple commits to “until death do us part,” that doesn’t include the whole s...
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Previous Posts
2021 - February - Gazette - Masculine and Feminine Grieving
Masculine and Feminine Grieving
HEART – Helping Empty Arms Recover Together – is a support group that Jenn Stubbs and I facilitate for individuals and couples who have experienced pregnancy ...
2021 - January - Gazette - Heartfelt Support
Heartfelt Support
Many of you may know that the root of the word courage is “cor,” the Latin word for heart. It takes courage to listen to our hearts.
Fortunately for us, our brains are used to l...
2021 - January - CDT - Helping Hands
Everyone in Happy Valley is very grateful for the many helping hands in our community, especially during this pandemic. We’re continually in awe of all the first responders who put their he...
2020 - December - Gazette - Pieces of Me
Pieces of Me
When our son was little, the two of us had a nightly practice called “Most Grateful, Least Grateful.” As I helped him settle into bed, we would both think through our day and share on...
2020 - November - Gazette - Searching for Meaning
Searching for Meaning
Experts who study grief suggest that people who are grieving have a need to search for meaning. Meaning helps them understand the nature of their grief - the what, why, when ...
2020 - October - Gazette - Healing Through the Holidays
Healing Through the Holidays
Who knew the Pope tweeted? Apparently I haven’t been in the know. With so much darkness in the news these days, I was happy when I recently came across Maria Shriver's...
2020 - October - CDT - Active Life
Whole, But Not the Same
I’m a big fan of each of the four different seasons – spring, summer, fall and winter. For 13 years I lived in Orlando, Florida, and missed the significant changes in seaso...
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