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Tag Archives: grief
Weeping & Walking & Welcoming My Inner Turtle
At dusk, an unscheduled detour and stop at the Peace Pagoda in Leverett, a place of calm for a very long time in my life. It is up a steep trail in a clearing in the woods on a hillside. … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, grief, Spiritual Practice
Tagged embodied spirituality, go slowly, gratitude, grief, inner turtle, Peace Pagoda, spiritual practice, surrender
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A Prayer for Liminal Time
A liminal time, this… when the veil between life and death grows thin, when the rhythm of day drawing breath shows itself in the crackle of umber leaves, in the moon rising low in blue autumn sky. Many named: Samhain, … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Prayers, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged all souls, day of the dead, grief, liminal time, loss, May Sarton, mystery, prayer, samhain
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On the Resurrection of Beloved Dogs (poem)
“Everything is mortal. It dies. But its parts don’t die. Its parts become something else. And we know that when we bury a dog in the garden. And with a rose bush on top of it.” (Mary Oliver, interview with … Continue reading
F*ck Bucket Lists
So there’s this thing. A term of art that apparently everyone (who’s anyone) knows what it means and its relative import (very) in the scheme of things. There’s even a mediocre-to-bad movie I cannot bring myself to watch. When did … Continue reading
Posted in Chaplaincy, Hope
Tagged 30 Days of Love, bucket list, cancer, Cheryl Strayed, Death, fuck bucket lists, grief, put yourself in the way of beauty, Wild
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Tiny Resurrections: Easter Sunrise 2015 (sermon)
The loss has been real. The darkness. Its apparent permanence. Hope cruelly stolen. Two millennia ago, we could not speak in the past tense, as we do now. We wouldn’t have found the rock rolled back, not quite yet. We … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Hope, Sermons, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged Denise Levertov, Easter, empty tomb, grief, Kate Braestrup, nature, resurrection, sunrise, The Fountain, tiny resurrections
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Forget the Blessings (poetry)
for T.C. Forget pious blessing chatter. The nice-nice that assures polite company the world still spins properly. It doesn’t. It’s off kilter. Your son is gone. All is not right in the world. Should you take my advice, … Continue reading
The Divine Reality of Brokenness — guest post
Here is this blog’s first forray into hosting a guest blogger. You can learn more about the author of this post at the bottom; suffice it to say, Catharine is also on the path to be ordained at a UU … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Posts, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged Akhilandeshvari, broken, grief, never-not-broken, unity, wholeness
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Meditations on Grave Digging
I am not known to shy away from death (not yet, at least). Lest you forget or didn’t know, I am the foster parent (shhh, don’t tell DCF) who, when the cat hid away to die and was found twelve … Continue reading
Posted in Prayers
Tagged Death, gallows humor, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, Memento Mori, prayer for death of pet dog
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