‘Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve’. /Earl Grollman/ It was a beautiful sunny August morning. Despite the almost always present shadow of death with Edzus having […]
Have you allowed yourself to mourn?
October 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment
‘There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.’ /Henry Wordsworth/ The words ‘grieving’ and ‘mourning’ are used interchangeably yet there is a difference between the two. Grieving is our internal thoughts and feelings when we are faced with the loss – unspeakable sadness, despair, anger, sorrow, numbness, fear, shock, feeling that […]
Letting go
September 22, 2014 by Leave a Comment
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us. /Joseph Campbell/ This is time to celebrate and contemplate the balance of darkness and light, balance between the day and the night. Depending where you are in the world, it is […]
Do it your way!
August 31, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Some years ago August was the best month of the year for me as both my sons were born then. It was only time for celebrations and play. Now it has changed. There still are celebrations as my oldest son, Mikus, has grown into a handsome young man – on 30th August it was his […]
He would have been 20 today
August 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Today is my son Edzus birthday. He would have been 20. I never, however, fantasise who he would have become or what he would have done if he didn’t die at the age of 11. There are some things in life we cannot change. When someone you love dies there is no way you can […]
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