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Items tagged loss
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Passing on love
A gradfather?s death presents a challenge to love more deeply.
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Late night thoughts on grieving as a process
An exploration of the nature of loss.
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Sweaters
On the garments of our lives and the memories they absorb.
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Grieving in community
A review of Alison McGhee's Shadow Baby with a list of other books that have proved helpful after a loss.
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Dragging my heels
Another transition prompts reflection on the fleeting experience of good things.
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Poet of love, yearning and sadness
The exquisitely melancholy love songs of Leonard Cohen.
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Do not go gentle into that good night
An analysis of the film In the Valley of Elah.
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A shifting image
On family gatherings marked by new life and loss.
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The velveteen bear
A childhood gift becomes a constant companion.
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The story of our home
On reinforcing a sense of identity through loss.
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Fathers matter
A morning revelation creates space for grief and discovery.
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Round and round
A meditation on receiving with the original intention of giving.
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Tiebreaker
A tribute to the fall of a baseball team and a season.
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Of drunken birds and calling to best friendship
A reflection on adulthood, hard friendships and the nature of commitment.
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Surprised by grief
On embracing the mourning of parents who have lost a child to a miscarriage.
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All who enter here
Unearthing the memories of love and loss contained in the family cabin.
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Enough already
A Holy Saturday lament over losses due to a new crude oil pipeline through the Hermitage and environs.
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Without bounds
A lament from 900 miles up the pipeline.
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A time to lament
The back story and a liturgy for a series of services of lament held by Peace Christian Reformed Church in South Holland, Illinois.
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Make it happen
An encounter with a phoenix, rising from the ashes.
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Tradition transitions
Why Thanksgiving never will be -- and never has been -- the same.
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A new normal
Ten things I’ve learned about trauma.
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