Items tagged loss

• Passing on love

  A gradfather?s death presents a challenge to love more deeply.

• Late night thoughts on grieving as a process

  An exploration of the nature of loss.

• Sweaters

  On the garments of our lives and the memories they absorb.

• Grieving in community

  A review of Alison McGhee?s Shadow Baby with a list of other books that have proved helpful after a loss.

• Dragging my heels

  Another transition prompts reflection on the fleeting experience of good things.

• Poet of love, yearning and sadness

  The exquisitely melancholy love songs of Leonard Cohen.

• Do not go gentle into that good night

  An analysis of the film In the Valley of Elah.

• A shifting image

  On family gatherings marked by new life and loss.

• The velveteen bear

  A childhood gift becomes a constant companion.