Are You Feeling Guilt or Regret?

For me, 2007 was a year of death. My daughter (mother of my twin grandchildren) died from the injuries she received in a car crash, my father-in-law succumbed to pneumonia, my brother had a fatal heart attack, and my former son-in-law died from the injuries he received in another car crash. All of this happened within six months. I was in such shock I could hardly think.

Scars Remain

Mrs. Rose Kennedy once stated, “It has been said, ‘Time heals all wounds.’  I do not agree.  The wounds remain.  In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens.  But it is never gone.”  

Choosing Life after Loss

It seems perfectly natural, doesn’t it?  If you have a question, go look it up in a book.  I’ve been doing it all my life.  I was taught how to do research in school, and now it’s my first instinct.  If I need a fact, I find a book with the answer.  If I don’t have the right book, I go to the library or the bookstore.  Well, some time ago, I found myself browsing a

Moments in Grief

Grief shows us the frailty and importance of every moment.  Having watched my father and my daughter take their last breath, I remember how time stretched as I counted the seconds.  No one can say for certain which is our final moment of inhaling.  Something is experienced energetically when death enters a room.