Summer Solstice and the Anticipatory Grief of Climate Change

by | Jun 20, 2024 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, Publications, Science, Technology and the Environment, Stillpoint, The Art of Grieving

Our relationship to time and temperature makes the June Summer Solstice date a special one to note In the Northern Hemisphere.  Dark, drab winter days are being replaced by more days of bright sunshine and longer daylight hours. As trees bud out and the storms of...

The Remembering Rooms

by | Mar 23, 2023 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Celebrations, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, History, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Stillpoint, Story-telling, Women, Girls & the Feminine

It was a Saturday, the first in a long time, when I wasn’t out of town, or too tightly scheduled to consider a variation in the day’s routine. I put the regional newspaper in the front seat of my car when I left for my exercise class, thinking that, after class I’d...

A Garden Remembers

by | Jul 24, 2020 | Art & Life, Environment, Family, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Meditations, Personal Stories, Resilience, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, Spirtuality, Stillpoint, The Art of Grieving

I was having one of those down days. My sister is in a memory care center in the Boston area, so of course I hadn’t been able to see or talk to her for several months. I’d gotten an email about a meeting the staff was having for family members, but the notice came so...

Radical Self-Care for Front Line Caregivers and Those who Love Them

by | Apr 16, 2020 | Good Will Come, Health and Wellness, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, Stillpoint, The Art of Grieving

I was on an airplane a few years ago when a flight attendant made the following announcement, “We have several members of the United States Armed Forces on board today so let’s let them know how much we thank them for their service.” Most everyone on board looked...

TOUGH INTO TRIUMPH

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