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Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve. ~ Earl Grollman, unspokengrief.com A widower loves with the knowledge that love sometimes outlives the relationship. We love at our own risk in […]
Continue ReadingWhere to begin? Twenty-three hours ago I held my mother’s arm as she died. She was 89 and I had lived with the probability of her death for years. She had a bad heart and whenever the phone rang and I saw it was from her caregiver, I thought it would be THAT call. Your […]
Continue ReadingANGELS AMONGST US By Jim Monroe Angels aren’t just in heaven There are angels all around Patti was the best example Of this that can be found Angels aren’t just in heaven They surround us every day Patti was a fine example Helping children find their way Each child deserves A helping hand A place […]
Continue ReadingDad, The summer after you died, I went through the attic. I was not looking for your things. Honestly, I was looking for vintage clothes from Mom’s old wardrobe. I’m not ashamed of that, because the skeletal mounds of your things around the house were suffocating. Shirts and pants and underwear, and Mom couldn’t get rid of them, […]
Continue Reading[Editor: This is only 11 days late, but the principles discussed apply to all holidays, so Happy Belated Valentine’s Day] Larry: My first wife, Vanessa, and I married young and were unable to have children so throughout our 24 years together it was just us. We never missed going out for a special Valentine’s Day […]
Continue ReadingSeveral readers have asked for more information about the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of AfterTalk. I provided a partial answer in an earlier post about Managing Grief by Writing where I discussed the theoretical basis of AfterTalk’s Private Conversations as therapeutic writing. In this blog I want to explain how writing to deceased loved ones fits […]
Continue Reading[Larry Lynn: Poet Jim Monroe shares with us his commemoration of the tragedy at Sandy Hook called “Innocent Victims”] Twenty-six persons Were murdered that day Not counting the mother And her son that had strayed A confused young man Rained bullets from hell Upon the school and it’s students They fell… woe… they fell Twenty […]
Continue Reading[LARRY: Poet and lyricist Jim Monroe shares with us a poem about the passing of a beloved dog. In my sixty-five years on earth I’ve had six of my dogs pass on. I remember each so vividly, especially the last, my beautiful Siberian Husky named Trixie who died recently at 16. I cannot think her […]
Continue ReadingTitle and Artist popular/general In the arms of an angel Sarah Maclaughlin Angels Robbie Williams Ave Maria Sarah Brightman To where you are Josh Groban Danny Boy Celtic Woman Wind beneath my wings Bette Midler Amazing Grace Judy Collins & the choir Amazing Grace LeAnn Rimes Amazing Grace Soweto Gospel Choir Spirit in the sky […]
Continue ReadingDear Larry, Sorry it took so long to write this, but I think finally realized the true point of AfterTalk. I can’t quite describe it, but writing this post brought me to a place I had always been afraid to go, to thoughts that I didn’t want to confess to even the abyss of my […]
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