Greetings from Alison Wiley here in Portland, Oregon. I'm a writer/doer/thinker who lives happily by putting people, nature and God ahead of accumulating more stuff. Read more →
‘Kindness’ is the single word I used yesterday in the subject line of the email I sent to my work-group. I had finally returned to the office after the death of my mother to be greeted by hugs, a sympathy card with personal notes from everyone, and a pot of vibrant yellow daffodils. I thanked [...]
Tags: death·grief·kindness·Leonard Cohen
How afraid are you of death, whether your own or that of someone you love? Because I feel certain of the soul living on after physical death, my fear has usually been of dying before I was certain I’d made a small but positive difference in the world. That fear of leaving this world too [...]
Tags: chaplain·death·dying·harp·hospice·ministry·music·thanatology
After being snowed and iced out the last two Sundays in a row, I finally get to go back to church this morning. My connection with God is even more important than usual to me right now because my mother-in-law Joan, in her ninth day at Providence hospital, appears to be dying. Her lungs are [...]
Tags: church·death·gari.baldi·God·life·love·relationships·religion
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