Written at Christmas, 2010 ‘Spilling over’ is bound to happen. The Christmas season has arrived, and with it all the emotions entangled therein. I have always loved Christmas. Since I was a small child and watched my mother carefully trim the fresh tree that my father had cut the day before. Christmas is …
Tag Archive: tears
Feb 04
Grief journal No. 3 – a pool of tears
(Grief Journal entries are taken directly from the journal I started days after my daughter’s death. They are my raw grief set to paper. I am sharing them here in hopes that others who grieve will see themselves, and at the same time see that survival is possible.) 6/14/08 This pool of tears that my …
Jan 17
Would you choose to know the date of your own death?
I have lost three of my closest family members in the last ten years. In 2001 my mother died from terminal lung cancer. I was with her and helped my father care for her during the last year of her life. She died peacefully in hospice. My father died in the fall of 2006. I …
Jan 16
Grief Journal No. 1 (6/1/08)
(Grief Journal entries are taken directly from the journal I started days after my daughter’s death. They are my raw grief set to paper. I am sharing them here in hopes that others who grieve will see themselves, and at the same time see that survival is possible.) 6-1-2008 The feelings are many and nearly …
