Maria May 2020 The fact is that I thought about starting this blog a few weeks before she died. I was even tempted to call it “Dying Would Be the Easy Part”. She and I would write together about the really hard conversations we were having, about how to arrange care for her as she […]
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A Psalm for the Dying
Edward Hays, Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim, 2008 Relatives and friends, I am about to leave; my last breath does not say “goodbye,” for my love for you is truly timeless, beyond the touch of boney death. I leave myself not to the undertaker, for decoration in his house of the dead, but to your […]
Out of the fog of grief, an introduction
Maria, November 2019 I am Maria, freshly grieving older daughter of Denise, who passed away in November, 2019. Denise was a native New Yorker and while she raised her two daughters in Maryland, she spoke of Coney Island, the subway, the Macy’s parade, and black and white cookies with such nostalgia that I couldn’t help […]