August 28th, 2008
I was reading an article called Coping with Grief over at arbiteronline.I related to the paragraph
“Sometimes what we’re going through is so painful or infuriating, we’re unsure how to process it and are prone to denying our grief or suffering. Some don’t allow themselves to grieve, choosing instead to bottle feelings inside, only to have […]
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August 20th, 2008
I was touched by the story of a gorilla who lost her baby. You can read the story at the Mail Online where they publish this heart wrenching picture and say
“While nature may indeed be red in tooth and claw, this moving image of Gana and her dead son Claudio seems to show that members […]
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August 15th, 2008
I wonder what you would say, I have written down a few sentences - what would you answer ?
Grief is mourning the loss of life, but the gain of memories
Grief is the end of one chapter and the start of another
Grief is the loss of a loved one but the gain of knowing what […]
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August 9th, 2008
I love the community we have here at Widows Quest and all the links that you send me. In a comment to A Poem on Grief, I was given a link to Linda Angel which has an array of bereavement and grief articles.
I believe the more we understand grief, the more we understand how our […]
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August 7th, 2008
My dearest heart,
I hear you cry during the night, I hear you ache for the hug that will say that your partners heart was still beating next to you, I hear you beat each moment fighting that desire to give up and join the heart you are missing. You are my soul and my way […]
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August 5th, 2008
One of our readers Frank Burns left an in depth comment to the post The Widows Quest Grief Recipe which I wanted to share with you, in case you don’t read all of the comments. (There are some great conversations that may help you by the way!) I want to thank Frank for taking the […]
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August 1st, 2008
Memories are so wonderful and I loved this story that I found over at MamaConnies blog called My Best Valentine. MamaConnie describes herself as 84 years young and lost her husband in 2000 after 57 years together. She was sorting through her Valentine letters and saw these words thateased her grief
“Proverbsl 18: 22 says:”He that […]
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July 31st, 2008
We have a new reader to our community - Jan left a comment to the Widows Quest Grief Recipe, welcome Jan. Jan asks a great question about grief and maybe we can help her
“I lost my husband 3 years ago this month and this has been the most intensely emotional year…. I thought my life […]
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July 30th, 2008
Agatha Christie said
“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about…It is […]
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July 25th, 2008
I posted yesterday about Is there life after death, and Diane wrote such wonderful words that I wanted to share them with you. She also left a link to the Waterbug story
“I believe that the loss of a loved one does change you forever but that the change isn’t always a bad thing. The days […]
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