by Tawnya | Feb 26, 2021 | Death Doula, Grief, Home Funeral, Impermanence
Content Warning: Abuse We hear it, see it, and read it all the time in the grief space. The notion that grief equals love. The articles. The quotes. The Instagram posts. “Grief is just love with no place to go.” -Jamie Anderson “Where there is deep...
by Tawnya | Feb 15, 2021 | Grief, Impermanence, Making Wishes Known
My brother Robert died at the age of fifty-one in June 2018 at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital during an attempt to replace an old, failing, plastic heart valve he’d had put in when he was thirteen. I would have referred to it as an open-heart surgery, but really, they...
by Tawnya | Dec 12, 2020 | Grief, Impermanence, Ritual
My every-few-mornings routine for years was to pour a little bit of H20 from my night stand water glass into my tarantula’s water bowl. She’d been a part of our family for sixteen years. Half my life. One morning, about to get dressed for work, wrapped in only a...
by Tawnya | Oct 16, 2020 | Grief
I used to love horror flicks and haunted houses in my teens and twenties. I often find myself this time of year, in my thirties, reflecting on a younger me’s affinity for fright and gore. Nowadays, if I watch horror, I gravitate more towards monster flicks than...
by Tawnya | Nov 16, 2019 | Aging, Elder Care, Grief
Image ID: A tattered armed forces of the United States ID Card showing a tealish-green border, eagle graphic, and Marine Corps text. A black and white picture of a young white male with dark hair is in the middle of the ID with the printed name Gary F. Baker, and...
by Tawnya | Aug 23, 2019 | Celebration of Life, Grief, Impermanence, Making Wishes Known
Music links us humans, heart to heart. Across time and space, and life and death.” –Nancy Werlin One of my favorite questions to ask in order to start a conversation about funeral wishes is, “What song(s) would you like played at your funeral?” I’m always pleasantly...
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