April 18, 2023 “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”– Dalai LamaCarolyn Killian, Director of Bereavement for the Diocese of Bridgeport, says so many people who come to her bereavement...
April 17, 2023 “Animals teach us that grief is a natural, if at times a profoundly difficult result of feeling love and joy with another being.”– Barbara J. King One of Dolly’s most faithful and loyal companions in her last year of life was Eli. He sat...
April 16, 2023 “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”– Edna St. Vincent Millay After Ralph’s wife died, for the first time he...
April 15, 2023 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”– Jesus Some of us don’t like to talk. Some of us never raised our hands in class. Some of us could be dying inside, and when someone asks, “How’s it going?” we respond, “Great.”...
April 14, 2023 “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”– Lao Tzu Well into his 70s, Margaret’s father cared for her mother, who had cancer and Alzheimer’s. The doctors gave her six months to live,...
April 13, 2023 “Real grief is not healed by time. If time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware of who she was for us, and the more intimately we experience what her love meant for us…. Yes, indeed, love often...
