Year End Reading Roundup I fell into a lot of great books and short stories this year. I explored a lot of non fiction about the oceans and my beloved whales (some of which will be included in the recommendations in my newsletter: “Wale Tales and Glitter”. Then there are all the incredible Speculative short…
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Today in Marine Science studies: Basking Sharks!
I attended a great virtual lecture this morning offered by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust: The Basking Shark – The Road Back From Oblivion with Colin Speedie Many of us have heard about Whale sharks – which are whale sized, but not actual sharks. Basking sharks are in the same category. Both are filter…
Grief is only love
From today’s reading on grief: “Grief is only love, it’s nothing to hide or send away with happy pills. Grief is a lifeline connecting two people who are in different realms together, it’s a sign of loyalty and hope.” – Rebecca McNutt- quoted in Grief Day by Day”by Jan Warner The signs of this continued…
My coven sister RD gifted me a really lovely book on grief: “Grief Day by Day: simple practices and daily guidance for living with loss” It hit me right in the feels, which is you know, good and bad and good, so I highly recommend it. The very first a quote was from Elisabeth Kubler-Ross:…
The 1st (not here) birthday
Happy Birthday, Dad.I miss you. #WhatIsRememberedLives
Processing / Grief
I’ve been exploring ways to process / work with / honor grief and mourning – my brain is kind of all over the map so this is kind of random. I’m journaling mostly daily. It’s pretty random so I’m been thinking about grief guides or one of those “helpful saying” 365 things to inspire me….
Christmas without Dad
The first Christmas without Dad has come and gone. Christmas Eve was really hard, Newelle and Kaelin said the same when we talked on Christmas Day. It felt as though our anticipation of how hard Christmas Day would be overwhelmed everything. When Christmas Day came it was just a day, and we didn’t drown in…
Exploring Grief
Today has been a day of exploring grief in many different ways. It’s been a ride. There have been moments I felt like a ping pong ball bouncing from one extreme experience to the next, waiting to fall off the table and shatter. No shattering so far, lots of crying, a bit manic in Doing…
Grief
Dad’s been gone for three weeks today. Just typing that stops me in my tracks. It doesn’t matter that he was aging and I knew this day would come. He’s gone and it feels like there are cracks in my foundation. I’m old enough to know that feeling is not a fact. I know that…
Roses from my sister
Beautiful roses from my sister Kaelin (The little photo at the top is of our grandfather, our dad’s dad – with a spoon on his nose! The two framed photos to either side of the vase are of grandmothers – on the right: dad’s mother, on the left: mum’s mother) No idea how long the…