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Sending thoughts and prayers out to Canada’s NDP leader, 61-year-old Jack Layton, who is now taking a leave of absence to receive treatment for the new cancer his doctor’s found in him last week. “I will beat this new cancer and I will be back …” he said today. Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed […]
Posted at: July 25th, 2011 - 11:47 am - Number of Comments » 0
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace. ~Milan Kundera Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend Read an excerpt now TV Shows and Clips about the Death of Cindy James
Posted at: July 24th, 2011 - 7:57 am - Number of Comments » 0
Henry, Thanks for passing this on: The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with […]
Posted at: July 20th, 2011 - 8:34 am - Number of Comments » 0
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ~J. Lubbock I recall the days of yesteryear when, as a wee child, I would […]
Posted at: July 19th, 2011 - 8:45 am - Number of Comments » 0
“Yesterday I received in the mail a letter from my uncle (my dad’s brother). It was in a cardboard express mail envelope. I pulled the tab on the envelope and peeked inside to find a handful of yellow legal pad papers. Eighteen pages. “He wrote of all the memories of my father from childhood, some […]
Posted at: July 15th, 2011 - 7:03 am - Number of Comments » 0
Now that you come to the end of a life…that same life which gave you life…the memory is buried deep in your heart and dwells deep in your soul. A new relationship will continue with that parent – not a physical relationship but one where the parent lives on in your heart. You will continue […]
Posted at: July 14th, 2011 - 6:44 am - Number of Comments » 0
We really never know exactly when our last goodbye will come with anyone. And when our parents become elderly and frail we may get an alert and have a sense of what’s coming…but we still never know for sure. Before a parent is gone, we understand intellectually that they will die some day. But understanding […]
Posted at: July 13th, 2011 - 6:40 am - Number of Comments » 0
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, That, we still are. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. […]
Posted at: July 5th, 2011 - 1:20 pm - Number of Comments » 0