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Tag Archives: coping
The path
Cycling through again. I have stopped counting the cycles. I have recognized that they can come from unanticipated triggers. Notes and remembrances from loving friends, stories in the news of events that parallel our own unfortunate circumstances, days … Continue reading
Posted in Coping with the Death of a Child, Death, Family, Friends
Tagged coping, coping with death, death of a child, Deep Creek, family, friends, Happiness, love, Panthertown, The Pinnicle Trail
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In Time
Posted in Birds of Prey, Coping with the Death of a Child, Faith, Family, Pets
Tagged Bird, Broad Wing Hawk, coping, Happiness, hope, loss, love, Red-tailed Hawk, Relationships
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greater and lesser degrees
The grief attacks seem like a sort of panic attack. The feeling is sudden, the thoughts flood in, my son is dead. He is really gone. I will not see, hear or touch him again in this world. … Continue reading
Posted in Coping with the Death of a Child, Death, Faith, Family, Friends, Marraige
Tagged coping, coping with death, death of a child, Grief Loss and Bereavement, hope, love, Relationships
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Holiday from the holiday
This is a week that cannot be written about. I look at the screen and my mind is whirling with thoughts, none of them useful. We are trying to superimpose old routines upon this time of the year. They don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Coping with the Death of a Child, Death, Faith, Family, Friends, Holidays
Tagged coping, death, death of a child, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement
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The season
December 19th -It has been one of those weekends where I have been aware of my thoughts much like when you become aware of the ticking of a clock and would like for it to be quiet. I wished for … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Faith, Family, Friends, Holidays
Tagged coping, coping with death, death, family, Grief Loss and Bereavement, hope, life, love
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An unexpected gift
A friend of mine and fellow artist showed me one of her paintings that will be featured in a show this Spring. The vantage point was from above looking down on a street somewhere in Europe. The street arches away … Continue reading
Posted in Coping with the Death of a Child, Death, Faith, Family, Friends, organ donor
Tagged coping, coping with death, coping with grief, death, death of a child, Grief Loss and Bereavement, hope, joy, love
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Pip
I fasted from writing for a few days, at least from this type of writing. I wrote short poems and a simple Christmas acrostic. I also started trying to transcribe a journal kept by my son. I am not … Continue reading
Posted in Birds of Prey, Coping with the Death of a Child, Death, Family, Holidays
Tagged American Kestrel, coping, family, Grief Loss and Bereavement, hope, joy, Kestrel, loss, love, Pip, Red-tailed Hawk, remembering, Sparrow hawk
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In the moment
I’ve only had one panic attack that I know of or can remember vividly. It happened less than a week after my son died. I had gone to the kitchen, my husband, daughter and sister were in the den. I … Continue reading
Posted in Coping with the Death of a Child, Death, Family, Friends, Marraige
Tagged coping, coping with death, death, death of a child, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, hope, loss, love, mountains, panic, panic attack, Relationships
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December 2, 2011
I have gone blank this morning. It is December the 2nd. Officially five months. Yesterday, for whatever reason, I did not end up in tears until the end of the day, in bed. It is like I cannot go to … Continue reading
Posted in Coping with the Death of a Child, Death, Dogs, Family, Friends, Pets
Tagged coping, coping with death, death of a child, erode, grief, habits, hope, love, movies, spirit, time
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Parlor Tricks
When I was young, yes in the good old days, when there were not video games and you had to go to the theater to watch a movie that has now only been put on DVD in the past 5 … Continue reading
Posted in Coping with the Death of a Child, Death, Faith, Family
Tagged coping, coping with death, family, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, Happiness, hope, loss, love, remembering
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