Tag: life
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Tragic Optimism
We live in a time where solace is often hard to find. Where loss and grief are part of most lives. Whether on a personal level or in relation to the planet, species, the environment or the human condition. We all need strategies, not to just cope, but to thrive, even through loss.
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Gratitude and Wisdom
We are so caught up in fear of losing, that we forget to have gratitude for all that we have.
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Love, death and dignity.
In February of this year, a couple from New Brunswick in Canada, married 41 years, both terminally ill, decided to end their lives with MAID, Medical Assistance in Dying. Holding each other’s hands they left this world, in love, and together. Hearing the story of their life together and how much love existed between them,…
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In A World Like This, Dogs Are the Best
When You Have a Dog, You’re Never Alone When you have a dog, your seldom alone, On a walk, in the car, even the phone Oh sure inconvenient at times, thats true But happily so, cause you’re never blue Until the day comes that sadness arrives You’ve never known loneliness, till it thrives And the…
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The Messenger
What if you knew the future? What would you change? What would you do? Would you even believe?
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Madness
I have spent an inordinate amount of time, missing a man, I never knew. A man whose talent was so wonderfully, beautifully human that if I were able to bring him back, just for awhile, and so that I spend that time in his company, I would happily forego many of the so-called pleasures of…