Grief at The Holidays

I miss my Mother in Law. I think we all miss our dead loves ones at the holidays because, in busy modern times, holidays are some of our few remaining traditions. And traditions honor the dead because their place was marked and their place is missing. She brought the cranberries and rolls, she sat across… Continue reading Grief at The Holidays

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Lightening Up in Dark Times

I was asked to write about “lightening up” this week; the week after the election. Tough assignment after one of the most divisive “fights” for office. We got hair pulling and groin grabs… much more than the usual feisty tussle of elections past. To prep for the task, I re-read Milan Kundera’s, Unbearable Lightness of Being, because I… Continue reading Lightening Up in Dark Times

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