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How Do We Mourn Our Favorite Television Series?
One research study examines how loyal viewers react and grieve when their favorite TV series end for goodIn order to survive season after season, popular television series rely heavily on their loyal fan bases to keep watching so that their ratings stay up and give them a good chance of being renewed. Unfortunately, however, many popular shows must come to their demises eventually. At American University’s Kogod School of Business, researchers decided…
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“You’ve Got a Friend” by Carole King
A message of love, through space and time, that continues to heal wounds in Carole KingWhile death is never explicitly addressed in this classic song by Carole King, one can imagine it as a fitting piece of music for a beautiful memorial. There is something eternal and soul-like in King’s depiction of a friendship where “all you have to do is call,” where you can “close your eyes and think…
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For Those in the Bay Area Wanting to Help Change the World
You are invited to join SevenPonds at a VIP event to promote better senior care and applaud two one-of-a-kind heroesFor those of you located in the San Francisco Bay Area, please come join SevenPonds and friends for a one-time event next Tuesday at the beautiful “His Lordships” restaurant in Berkeley. We’ll meet up beside the bayside views of San Francisco and raise funds for a very worthy cause: the film If We Left. Suggested donation…
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“A Dedication”
James Merrill explores the divine that is imminent in the stages of griefJames Merrill’s elegiac poem, “A Dedication” observes grief in its most intimate setting: the mind. Addressed to his friend, the Dutch poet Hans Lodeizen (who died while still a young man in 1950), the poem suggests its close relation to the poet’s actual life. However, the poem is not like most other confessional poems; like a lyric it invokes a…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveI Will Always Be Nutty for You! 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…
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Mortality in Your Hands: “The Pocket Size Tlingit Coffin” by Gérard Titus-Carmel
What if you could carry your mortality in your pocket? Gérard Titus-Carmel’s powerful reflection on life and deathIt took Gérard Titus-Carmel (1942-present) over a year to finish his work, The Pocket Size Tlingit Coffin. Completed in July of 1976, Coffin is made up of 127 drawings (and one physical model) of various sizes and techniques of the same object. The collection offers a perceptive commentary on many themes common in the French…
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Sending Ashes Into Space as a Beautiful Blazing Shooting Star (Interview)
How we can memorialize our family members as a beautiful blazing shooting starToday SevenPonds speaks with Thomas Civeit, Founder and CEO of Elysium Space, an online and APP service company that provides families the opportunity to have their loved ones’ cremation ashes memorialized in space. Thomas is a space engineer, whose experience includes having worked with the team on both NASA’s Hubble and James Webb telescopes. In…
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Our Weekly Tip: Craft a Memorial Remembrance Tree
A remembrance tree makes for a moving centerpiece at your memorial or celebration of life ceremonyOur Tip of the Week: Memorials are not only about remembering your personal relationship to a loved one who has died, but about the coming together of all those who care deeply for him or her as well. A delicate gesture of unity, this remembrance tree craft is a way to combine the memories of…
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“Bobby Wonderful: An Imperfect Son Buries His Parents”
A memoir in which a Boomer confronts, with honesty and humor, the deaths of both his mother and fatherHow could a book about a Boomer dealing with the death of his parents be so fulfilling and delicious? Bob Morris does just that by sharing all of the intimate details, along with his private thoughts, of first his mother’s death and then his father’s (a few years later). “I mean, when he was eighty and my mother…
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