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Showing posts with label recovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recovery. Show all posts
Friday, August 10, 2012

Camp Widow + 1 Year

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Almost exactly to the day, one year ago I sat outside a room filled with strangers who shared a common experience with me – we had all lo...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

a better widow than me

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Photo from here... Last night, I finally threw Jeff's toothbrush in the trash. 3 years, 7 months and 22 days, since he used it to scru...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

commemoration

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First written one year after Jeff died.... Since Jeff died, I have carried this wound of loss inside me. To anyone passing me on the stree...
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Friday, September 30, 2011

old shoes and wooden spatulas

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Photo from here... . I've been sorting through our cupboards and closets and purging the least needed/most outgrown items lately in anti...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

touch me

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I can handle being alone. Being "single" is just fine and I am often think that this is how I would prefer to live. Loading the di...
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Friday, June 24, 2011

strength

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I have read a variety of quotes with a similar message. I think anyone who has dealt with trauma, loss or tragedy has come face-to-face with...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

if you were here

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There are times that I torture/comfort myself thinking of all the things I would say or do if Jeff "came back"....or was at very l...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

kinship

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Photo from here.... Nine months after Jeff died, my beloved grandfather joined him in the great fishing grounds in the sky. My grandmother w...
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Friday, April 8, 2011

give me one reason

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In any tragedy, early loss or hard lesson, we look for a reason behind it. The "why". Over the last three years I have searched f...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

the best before date

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Photo from here.... As a widow, when does our license to actively grieve expire? Is there a time limit to our sadness? An event that sig...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

Pretty Panty Problems

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Photo from here... There's an old adage that says that you should make sure that you are always wearing nice underpants in case you ...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

flying solo

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Photo from here I am finding this new responsibility of being thrust into the world of solitary decision making terrifying...But I am doin...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

touchdown

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Photo from "Day one" by Ameena Rojee . Originally posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 (after nine months of widowhhood) on my blog....
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Friday, December 10, 2010

what it is

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Photo from golfest Talking about being a widow is not something I always do....or want to do. Sometimes I need to talk about it. Express w...
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Friday, November 26, 2010

not all bad

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Photo from here... When we think of being widowed, we most often think of the sadness, the loss and the loneliness created in the wake of ou...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

time after time

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Photo from Holly Northrop I keep returning here to write something. To let you all know that things are okay and that life goes on and we a...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

brand name

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photo from learning how to live Doctor Obsequious Tattle-tale Cashier Humanitarian Uncle Artist Labels are words that used to describe ours...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

are you there grief? it's me, jackie

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Now and then, I sit down before the computer on the night before my post is due for Widow's Voice and stare blankly at the screen. Menta...
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Friday, August 6, 2010

those in the know

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Today I begin my journey to the Soaring Spirit's Loss Foundation's Camp Widow . I feel as if I am running to the arms of dear friend...
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Friday, July 2, 2010

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As a widow, how many times have you said, "when/since/because _____ died"? Even after two years, three months and six days, I regu...
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