“Let your New Year begin…”

“Let your New Year begin…”

“May the worst day  in 2006 be better                          than the best day in 2005.”      -from Father Charles Rubey, LOSS lifted with...
2020 Christmas Desiderata (something desired as essential).

2020 Christmas Desiderata (something desired as essential).

Amid the Christmas craziness and rushing, remember that you do not have to participate at anyone else’s pace but your own. As far as possible, without giving away a piece of who you are, be on good terms with those who matter to you. Speak of your grief quietly and...
A Season for Grief, Gratitude, & Growth

A Season for Grief, Gratitude, & Growth

There is a time for everything,and a season for every activity under the heavens:a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot,a time to kill and a time to heal,a time to tear down and a time to build,a time to weep and a time to laugh,a...
We Are Surviving

We Are Surviving

“As the months pass and the seasons change, something of tranquility descends, and although the well-remembered footstep will not sound again, nor the voice call from the room beyond, there seems to be about one in the air an atmosphere of love, a living presence…It...
Look for the Butterflies

Look for the Butterflies

“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.” – Edith Wharton      September will mark 45 years for me since Mom died. She took her life sometime over Labor Day Week-End in 1979. She was dead...