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::::::::::Becoming::::::::::: December 2014

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Monday, December 1, 2014. Charlotte Helen Bacon, always loved, always missed. As many of you know, the Kindness Project. This is a very special call that I hope you'll share with many others:. With permission from her parents, I am tragically privileged to introduce you to a most amazing, beautiful, spirited, and precious little girl, Charlotte Helen Bacon, and her legacy of kindness. If you know of any children,. For the Charlotte Bacon Act of Kindness Award. Newtown Kindness and the Charlotte Bacon Act...

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::::::::::Becoming::::::::::: Two souls that come together as one in destiny: Chemakoh

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Monday, May 4, 2015. Two souls that come together as one in destiny: Chemakoh. 8220;Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”. Two weekends ago, I went to the one. Place on earth- a seriously remote. Wanted to visit. Because I'm not ready, yet, to speak of this specific location, I'm going to forego details about the area. it's not a significant factor in this most amazing story. This is important: I waited decades for this trip. He took his oth...

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::::::::::Becoming::::::::::: April 2014

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Thursday, April 24, 2014. The Lies Imprison, The Truth Liberates. 8220;Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.”. Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected prose. My child is not "in a better place".

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::::::::::Becoming::::::::::: May 2014

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Sunday, May 11, 2014. The afternoon knows what the morning never expected. I am typing this from the acute surgical floor of a local Phoenix hospital where no mother would want to spend Mothers Day. But I've been living at this hospital since Tuesday now, starting in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit, by the bedside of my beautiful son. And I am quite grateful to be here by his side, after five sleepless nights, where he and three friends survived a horrific head-on collision with. Get back to Phoenix. ...

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::::::::::Becoming::::::::::: July 2014

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014. The Paradox of Suffering Take II. The day this article. Was released, my colleagues Megan Devine of Refuge in Grief and Dr. Geoff Warburton and I had a little discussion about it. On her acute crisis:. Denise felt angry with the paramedic for trying to tell her he knew best. "I was furious. I said to him, what are you going to do? Stop me from leaving the house? Nd about her surviving children on scene, ". My three year long research on the Hutterite colony. So the question: Can yo...

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::::::::::Becoming::::::::::: April 2015

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Sunday, April 12, 2015. Dying of Cold: Growing in the Darkness. Before you know what kindness really is. You must lose things,. Feel the future dissolve in a moment. Like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand,. What you counted and carefully saved,. All this must go so you know. How desolate the landscape can be. Between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride. Thinking the bus will never stop,. The passengers eating maize and chicken. Will stare out the window forever. She died alm...

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::::::::::Becoming::::::::::: February 2015

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Thursday, February 19, 2015. There is some hullabaloo going on about " prolonged grief disorder. Aka 'complicated grief disorder.' Yep, another grief-related 'mental illness.' According to a NEJM blog it is "condition is characterized by intense grief that lasts longer than would be expected according to social norms. And that causes impairment in daily functioning.". The same blog continues:. I've had many emails and calls about this. So, I will say, and those who know me can predict this:. And let's no...

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::::::::::Becoming::::::::::: September 2014

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Sunday, September 21, 2014. On July 27, 1994, my world fell silent. And on July 27, 2014 I fell silent. I did not blog about what it was like to be the mother of a child dead for two decades. I won't be blogging about it much today. What I wanted to share is that twenty years is a long time to miss someone. Twenty years is a long time to feel and think and wonder about someone you cannot touch, or hear, or see. Yet the love I have for her, my dead daughter, has not waned. Links to this post. The soul sti...

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::::::::::Becoming::::::::::: March 2015

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Friday, March 6, 2015. Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. I went on a long walk in the sun today, contemplating many things in my usual heliotropic style. I started thinking about the ways in which. 8220;In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.”. Indeed, the word civilized, etymologically, has fascinating roots:. Verb from Old French civil. There is...