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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveFrolicking in Fields of Golden Love It’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us to 2005: the moment Page Hodel encountered Madalene Rodriguez and fell “instantly, dizzyingly in love with…
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No Body There: The Empty Bed And The HIV/AIDS Crisis
Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ billboard installation “Untitled” speaks to love and lossBetween February 20th and March 18th of 1991, 24 billboards throughout Manhattan showcased the monochrome image of an unmade double bed with rumpled sheets and depressions of a head in the center of each of the two pillows. No explanation accompanied the image; if it was an advertisement for something, it was failing miserably. The billboards, in fact, were…
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Take Refuge in Nature’s Tender Touch
Timeless techniques for navigating grief with natural materialsOur Tip of the Week: Spending time in direct physical contact with the elements offers a chance to slow down our troubled minds to the pace of a flower’s unfolding, to offer up our hearts to a gust of wind and pour our grief into the infinite capacity of the Earth’s waters. When an experience…
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Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed
A book in which Stephen Levine explores death and dying through intimate conversations with the grieving and the dying“Let this book tear your heart open,” Stephen Levine writes in the introduction to his book Meetings At The Edge: Dialogues With the Grieving and Dying, The Healing and The Healed, a compilation of transcribed conversations Levine had with people actively confronting death. Some of the conversations in the collection were with people grieving the…
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Preserving the Totem Poles of the Northwest
Clans indigenous to the Northwest Coast saw totem pole carving as a crucial end-of-life traditionTheir beautiful, intricate designs have made totem poles an icon of the Northwest Coast. Way before they graced the sides of planes and backs of tourism brochures, however, totem poles played an important role in the region’s indigenous end-of-life tradition. For hundreds of years, natives of the Northwest Coast honored their dead through the creation…
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Say Their Names: On Recovering After the Loss of a Child
The Compassionate Friends bring bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings together with one simple messageIf you have experienced the loss of a child, you probably have felt a sense of isolation in the loss. Unlike most other types of loss, the death of a child is something that rarely happens. Most of us know someone who has lost a grandparent, or even a parent, but far fewer of us personally…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveShavings of my Love in Remembrance of School Days Past It’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us to 2005: the moment Page Hodel encountered Madalene Rodriguez and fell “instantly,…
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“Septimus”
A personal look at a poem considering the tragedy and beauty that accompany both life and deathSo often we are conditioned to think of death as something tragic. And, undoubtedly, losing someone is heartbreaking. It shakes your entire world. It changes the way you move through your day to day. I had been, for many years, the sort of person who shied away from even discussing death. The thought of it brought…
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