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Editor’s Note 4.28.20: Sara Bailey recently sent us a link to an excellent guide to sleep and grieving that we recommend. Here is the link: Sleeping After Loss: Understanding the Effects of Grief on Sleep The Catharsis of Loss: Tips for Better Sleep After Losing a Loved One by Sara Bailey People have […]
Continue ReadingGrief Poem 124 Dayenu: It Would Have Been Enough by R.L. Nona If we had been given one more year to watch the sun set on the far mountains, float on our backs in salt ponds shaded by ancient willows that protest the weight of their leaves, and hold each other close as the […]
Continue ReadingWill I Ever Get Over This Grief? [Editor: The Sugars referred to in the salutation of this letter are the two authors of The Sweet Spot, a weekly column (Thursdays) in The New York Times. I was particularly impressed by their answer to this question. Out of respect for the Times copyright, I am teasing […]
Continue ReadingStrange Awakenings By Peggy Amler It was early morning. My eyes were still shut. I was waking up before my alarm went off. I could tell it wasn’t quite daylight, but close to it. I had some remnant thoughts, some vague remembrances of a […]
Continue ReadingEditor’s note: this is National Suicide Awareness Week, so we chose this brilliant article that speaks for itself. My Father Killed Himself by Judy Melinek, MD “My father killed himself when I was 13 years old.” That was the opening line of my medical school admission essay, the one in which I tried to convince an […]
Continue ReadingIn memory of all those who we lost on 9/11 There is a heavy debt of guilt whenever I realize that our new life wouldn’t exist had Arron not died. Through the pain of our grief, we discovered strength we didn’t know we possessed, learned to appreciate the gifts of life and have empathy for […]
Continue ReadingMeghan McCain at the National Cathedral, Washington, DC For video, click HERE “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for, and I hate very much to leave it.” When Ernest Hemingway’s Robert Jordan, at the close For Whom the Bell Tolls lies wounded, waiting for his last fight, these are among […]
Continue ReadingJohn McCain’s daughter Meghan posted this on Sunday, a wonderful tribute to a revered American. My father, United States Senator John Sidney McCain III, departed this life today. I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning. In the thirty-three years we shared together, he raised me, taught […]
Continue ReadingMourning the Loss of a Sibling Rival By Gina Demillo Wagner “When my brother Alan died suddenly at age 43, I received the usual condolences, plus a few unusual ones. One friend texted, “So glad this weight has been lifted from your shoulders.” Another simply hugged me and said, “I hope you finally have some […]
Continue ReadingEditor’s Note: most of our posts are for the grieving. Alarmed as we are by the latest pronouncements about a spike in suicide rates, and the propensity of the recently bereaved to contemplate suicide, we decided to publish this excellent article by Anna Kucirkova. You may not be thinking about suicide yourself, but perhaps others in your […]
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