grief to relief Archive

  • The greatest remedy for death is life The greatest response to dying is living. I hold steadfastly to this belief since we said goodbye, the same way you are steadfastly...

    goodbyes

    The greatest remedy for death is life The greatest response to dying is living. I hold steadfastly to this belief since we said goodbye, the same way you are steadfastly...

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  • I’ve said this since the age of 16.  To participate in a relationship is to hold another’s heart in your hand as sacred. Not through self sacrifice, but through responsibility,...

    On relating in truth

    I’ve said this since the age of 16.  To participate in a relationship is to hold another’s heart in your hand as sacred. Not through self sacrifice, but through responsibility,...

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  • The day a woman stops believing in her man marks the end of their relationship.  Her world, and his, as they know it, ceases to exists.  It’s just that simple,...

    Endings…

    The day a woman stops believing in her man marks the end of their relationship.  Her world, and his, as they know it, ceases to exists.  It’s just that simple,...

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  • For you love, and mark that you left on this world “You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your...

    In loving memory

    For you love, and mark that you left on this world “You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your...

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  • it was the words we never spoke out loud even in empty spaces for fear the walls would hear but in the space between us, they were allowed those ugly...

    The Art of Love

    it was the words we never spoke out loud even in empty spaces for fear the walls would hear but in the space between us, they were allowed those ugly...

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  • Tell me how a heart could have so long to prepare and even a lifetime to dream and not get it right and I will give you a woman at...

    flaws

    Tell me how a heart could have so long to prepare and even a lifetime to dream and not get it right and I will give you a woman at...

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  • and he was so good to her holding her heart as she wept the sad goodbye in the cold october nights night after night his heart held hers as she...

    time is timeless, a story is written in the heart

    and he was so good to her holding her heart as she wept the sad goodbye in the cold october nights night after night his heart held hers as she...

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  • tonight, as I held hands with those around as we meditated on oneness I imagined your hand was in my empty one I prayed for peace in my heart in...

    Creases

    tonight, as I held hands with those around as we meditated on oneness I imagined your hand was in my empty one I prayed for peace in my heart in...

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  • as she touched me the memory of you poured out of my heart my eyes flooded like the pouring rain last Thursday morning I could not control it, nor did...

    Garden Angel

    as she touched me the memory of you poured out of my heart my eyes flooded like the pouring rain last Thursday morning I could not control it, nor did...

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  • I chose to do the eulogy at my grandmother’s funeral last October. She raised me. We were very close and I held her hand while she left us. I sat...

    Church Bells

    I chose to do the eulogy at my grandmother’s funeral last October. She raised me. We were very close and I held her hand while she left us. I sat...

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