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Between Grief & Joy is a creative health and wellness newsletter featuring prose, poetry, book recs and reflections inspired by how we live and love in the spaces between grief and joy & how community, faith and self compassion help us heal.
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Time capsules and travel plans (opens the original)
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September 30Where have I been? In closets, old journals, archives, book pages and airports. I’m traveling to New York in a few days, and as I was pulling storage containers down from my closet shelf, I remembered tomorrow is the first of October.Between Grief and Joy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" name=
It took 50 years, but I made it just in time (opens the original)
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Start Here: Grief comes like a thief in the night (opens the original)
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Grief can feel so cruel and disorientating. At first you feel like you’ve been robbed or forsaken. And once you think you’ve learned to accept what will never be again, you’re blindsided ⸺Whoosh. You’re almost off your feet. You don’t fall into despair, it’s more like you’ve plunged into it. Grief collapses time and is really good at surprising you. I k… Read more
Live with Yolande Clark-Jackson and author Jenny Robinson-Clark (opens the original)
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Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video!Jenny and I were so excited to talk, laugh, and share our grief and our joy. We discussed the story and song behind her debut picture book, but we also discussed the following:How to normalize grief conversations with children.How children’s picture books become sources of healing.How silence can be the best response when we can’t find the language to comfort a grieving friend. How we carry our loved ones in the past, present, and future tense.
Food, Memory, Love, Loss: Noqui (opens the original)
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In a previous post I wrote about my neighbor Ruth who came up with the idea to create a cookbook and use preorder sales as a way to raise funds to expand my daughter Divine’s treatment options. Ruth was my right-side neighbor. But on my left side lived my good friend N, who still lives in the same house when I met her in the summer of 1999.N was born in… Read more <
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