Walking With My Dad This walking stick, whittled out of ash or hickory, belonged to my dad. The surface is shaved perfectly smooth, and I’m sure it took a lot of work to make a perfect walking stick. In a way, I was with him for 1.58 miles this morning to honor him with my […]
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A Hungarian, Albert György, created this sculpture, titled Mélancolie (Melancholy), in the 1930s after the loss of his wife. The bronze sculpture is located on the promenade Quai du Mont Blanc in Geneva, Switzerland, and depicts a man contemplating the pain and emptiness of loss, as evidenced by the gaping hole. As a GriefShare facilitator, […]
Embrace the Silence Silence drowns out any other sounds that could soothe with ordinary, which is no longer, hurled out with familiar routines wrapped in the loss of a loved one. Thoughts are in disarray, stretched to breaking over the fresh impact of loss, familiar routines seem pointless, and a steady bombardment of memories that […]