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...
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 | Sep 17, 2019 | Aging, Death Acceptance, Elder Care, Impermanence
The search for the fountain of youth is an age-old tale. This recent bio-tech article makes it clear just how off-putting the idea of aging is for some, and how desperately we want a “cure.” “David Sinclair, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, is one of...
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...
by Tawnya | Jul 27, 2019 | Celebration of Life, Grief, Impermanence
When I told Chelsie my “Mi Rosa” story after returning from my honeymoon in Cancun, we laughed a very good, good laugh. I am emotional and sentimental at heart. We all know this. Upon landing in Mexico, I was given a beautiful, light pink, almost peachish rose, and...
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