Gari
Status: The only feeling stronger than loss.... is LOVE. Love to the MAX!
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Good Morning to all my Sisters of the Heart, I have exciting news to share and want you to be among the first to know. I have finished the short book called "Going On" that I have been working on...
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YOU ARE. On becoming a Parent of a Deceased Child (PDC), being swallowed by the abyss, and eventually understanding that the end isn’t really the end. At First…YOU ARE an un-whole, incomplete...
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On the beach behind the riverWe shall meet, no more to sever;In the bright, the bright forever,In the summer land of song. - Fanny Crosby, "The Bright Forever"
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I've been asked to post my journal On the Edge again. I hope you find it helpful. Love,Gari - Max's MomOn the Edge: Sometimes tears still take me by surprise, but I look back at the full...
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The Space Between the Logs Some of you may know of Tara Bracht. If you don't, may this be an introduction to a woman who has helped me in my healing. Her web site has a lot of free downloads...
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The Bright ForeverBreaking through the clouds that gather,O'er the Christian's natal skies,Distant beams, like floods of glory,Fill the soul with glad surprise;And we almost hear the echoOf the pure...
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Sometimes tears still take me by surprise, but I look back at the full ferocity of my grief after my son’s death as if someone other than myself went though it. I remember it, but it’s as if it...
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I've had a bad couple of days and decided to try and understand more about what I was feeling. Sometimes, as you all know, if we just give in to a good old cry, there is a release of some sort and...
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I have been asked to expand the sharing of this journal with every Mom on our site with hopes that it can potential speak to you, too. I apologize for those who will receive it for a second time....
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Max was never an easy child. From birth, he seemed "wired" waving his little fists in the air as if conducting an orchestra only he could hear. He had such exuberance... the perfect word for his...
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I am inspired by the lovely tributes I've recently read from Mom's about their children. I thought I'd write a letter to Max expressing what I feel on this beautiful sunny summer day.Dear Max,I'm...
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When Max died, a friend gave me a book called "Healing After Loss" by Martha Hickman. It is made up of daily meditations for working through grief. I didn't pick it up for a full year but when I...
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Max always did things on his own terms resulting in many good, and sometimes not so good, outcomes. He continues to teach me so many things and I am so lucky to have this connection with him. ...
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I have come to believe that we are all on this planet to learn specific lessons. There are no coincidences. Our parents, siblings, life events, friends, jobs - everything - has been chosen for...
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