Thank you to The Compassionate Friends for including my essay “Limp Stockings and Empty Chairs” in the Winter 2022 edition of their magazine linked here in full. The issue is packed with helpful articles and poems to help manage the joys and sorrows of the season. As many have written, we are a grief illiterate …
The Compassionate Friends posted my essay today for the many of us who experience a continuing relationship with our dead loved ones with gratitude instead of fear.
My essay was posted on the Compassionate Friends website this week. I wrote it in 2017, but I had mulled about the dream for several years before then. It took me time to prod and poke at my reflection on the dream in my journal, I knew I hadn’t quite culled it. It also took …