Tag Archives: death

Around the Lake

Posted on March 8, 2022 by msw blog

For three decades, Jo Ann and I spent Friday afternoons walking around Minnesota’s Lake Winona. We walked through pregnancies and miscarriages, through homeopathy school and university tenure, through Weight Watchers and evolving wardrobes, through caring for daughters (and sometimes their … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged blessed, Breast cancer, change, Colette hyman, conversation, courage, death, friendship, happiness, healing, life, lifestyle, memories, realationships, routine, strength, walking | 7 Comments

In Our Nature

Posted on January 31, 2022 by msw blog

The natural world and its process have much to teach us about flexibility, creativity, and resilience that’s already within us, just waiting to unfurl. Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Believe, consequences, creativity, death, Emotional Resilience, emotions, faith, flexibility, happiness, inspiration, life, mindfulness, mother nature, nature, scenes, self love, self-awareness, solitude | 2 Comments

Greener Pastures

Posted on January 23, 2022 by msw blog

Families can participate in every aspect of natural services: They can carry their loved one to the grave, help place them inside, and fill the grave with soil. The intimacy of this process evokes raw emotion, and that’s cathartic. Afterward, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, Reflections | Tagged after life, Burials, circle of life, communication, Cremation, death, earth, family, gardening, Grief, hard conversations, natural services, nature, realationship, realationships, reef ball, saying good bye | 4 Comments

One Last Lovely Dinner

Posted on November 25, 2021 by msw blog

My father lay dying of the coronavirus. A normally ebullient 96-year-old, he drifted in and out of consciousness as I, also infected, sat at his bedside. His lucid moments were precious opportunities for connection and FaceTime calls with his grandchildren. … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Beginning today, children, communication, coronavirus, death, Dinner date, family, fashionable, Grief, grief and loss, guardian, hard conversations, katharine cunningham, love, memories, parenting | 5 Comments

Hello, Old Friend

Posted on November 23, 2021 by msw blog

Grief was that relative I heard stories about. I knew her in the way I knew Uncle Gerald, someone I never met but learned so much about. Then my husband died, and there Grief was, shaking my hand. I offered … Continue reading →

Posted in Reading | Tagged crying, death, emotions, faith, friendships, Grief, grief and loss, growth, Habit, healing, health, hopeful, insight, Isolation, life, life lessons, memories, mindfulness, mood, power, prayer, realationships, solitude, stillness | 2 Comments

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