So regarding my promise to David. I promised David that I would get to see his Descanso for Virginia. I am in Florida & the Descanso is in Arizona. The first thought was ” how am I going to get there to see his Descanso?” So I figured I can ask somebody there to do […]
I just received an email from a friend, Donna. She sent me Superchick’s “We Live” (MP3) song – this is such a great song! The part that is most impactful is: The weather in life outside is stormingBut what would it take for the clouds to breakFor us to realize each day is a gift […]
I just read this great story :: Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, “I love you and I wish you enough.” The daughter replied, “Mom, our life together […]
Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past, and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without. A silent space of intense presence arises both in you and around you. You dissolve discord, heal pain, dispel unconsciousness–without doing anything–simply by […]
Tonite an email arrived that pulled at all my emotions. It reads :: “Señor, I have maintained my daughter’s roadside marker for 14 years now. I will soon be gone as well. It was important for me, in the waning years of my life, to be able to speak with her at the place she […]
Today I was able to define the statement for The Compassionate Friends newsletter. In this third workday of the SELP I was able to define my mission statement very clearly. It reads like this: What I am out to create is to transform the energy of grief, loss, anger and hopelessness into the energy of […]
“They who think that you are gone, because no more your face they see, are wrong, for in our hearts you live and always will in memory.” “Healing from grief is not a process of forgetting,It is the process of remembering with less pain and more joy.”
