The Gift of Grief

The mother of a friend of mine passed away recently. This was the first significant death that my friend had experienced. They knew people that had died. But this was the first death of someone they loved. Someone they cared deeply for. And it shook them. They are in their late sixties and had never…

If Hope is the thing with Feathers…

It’s been a tough week.  Some friends have passed away.  And some famous people have passed on, too.  It felt like every day for the last week someone I knew or someone I knew of died. For some odd reason Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope is the thing with feathers” has popped into my head.  If…