This summer, one singular volunteer sunflower began to grow in one of my front vegetable bins. I watched it get bigger and bigger until...

Today, I remembered this note in my "Grieving Gardens" files and it resonated with me: "During our therapy session today (May 8), Jinny...

Gary wanted to talk to a psychiatrist to learn more about Ben's mental illness, and what drove him to his suicide; I did not. I knew it...

Today, Janice from the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra (SYSO) came and picked up Ben's "good" cello, bow & case. Ben had bought the...

While participating in the "Writing Your Grief" program, I kept wondering about the "meaning, power, intent" of writing about grief for...

I was gardening at Patricia's house today. Ben had lived in the little cottage in her garden for several months, and I was sad thinking...

Can you see your own self as love sees you? Can you write a blessing for yourself that expresses fierce, protective, tender,...

We write because someone has died. How do we write and bow with respect to the fact that death is at the core of this story? What is the...

How do we see the gesture, the mass, the gravity, of the one you love, now that we cannot look at them directly? How do we know the...

Go back to the writing you printed off yesterday Read back through your writing, underlining any words or short phrases that catch your...

Choose something written during this course, Print it out, and cut it into sections. With scissors. Separate sentences or blocks of short...

Read the John O'Donohue poem (below) then, as quickly as possible, write. Write anything and everything that comes to you, rushes through...

Have you had encounters that let you know you're not alone? Synchronicities or just cool alignments of things that, whatever they "mean"...

How would you love me in this? If I imagine you speaking, imagine you loving me through this, you would tell me... Ben, what would you...

Imagine you can write in the voice of the one you love: write from their perspective. Let yourself roam. Try to keep yourself out of any...

Set your timer, and begin. Write: I remember... Choose something. Anything. The more ordinary, the better: shoes. Kitchen table. Garden...

What does a shift in your grief, even a tiny, momentary one, mean to you? What does it say about loss? Or love? A shift in my grief, even...

Begin your writing with the phrase: I remember... Or, alternately: I want to remember... You might also shift back and forth between: I...

As you are ready, write your own blessing for your companions in this broken-heart space. What do you wish for, knowing that the pain...

Grief is everywhere. Especially in early grief, every object, every landscape, it connected to grief - whether it is something they...