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Connecting to Grief Past and Present
Andrea Bayer, the curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells the story of her loss through great works of artIf you are an artist, you may express your grief through art, but what if you are a curator of one of the most renowned museums in the country? Andrea Bayer, the curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art outlines her bereavement through a narrative set to great works of art, each…
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What is the Funeral Consumers Alliance? (Interview)
The Funeral Consumers Alliance talks about your rights…Joshua Slocum is the Executive Director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA), a nonprofit dedicated to education and advocacy surrounding funeral consumer rights. Coming out next month, his groundbreaking (sorry) book Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death digs deep into the funeral industry. Below, read Josh’s expert tips on planning a funeral your way…
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“Interiors“
The Woody Allen Film paints a beautiful portrait of a dysfunctional family’s struggle to create a life of meaning in the face of deathWoody Allen has always included themes of death and dying in his work, but Interiors (1978) is his first take on the subject without the ability to take relief in the comedy genre. That’s not to say classics like Annie Hall or Manhattan don’t breach the topics with poignancy and depth – but this is…
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The Shift From Burials To Cremation In Western Culture
How journalist Jessica Mitford helped spark a cultural shift in our end-of-life practicesA popular joke goes a little something like this: one fish swims up to another fish and asks, “How’s the water?” The other fish responds, “What the hell is water?” David Foster Wallace and Derek Sivers have used this joke to talk about why it’s so hard for us to describe the culture around us.…
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Free Memory Screenings Can Help Detect Alzheimer’s Sooner
One group wants to use recreated photos of treasured memories to spread the word about Alzheimer’s screeningsDid you know that November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month? Well, one group wants all of you to remember it. Remember Together is an organization focused on early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s through a huge social media campaign. The idea is simple: recreate a photo from your past. But people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s are robbed of these…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveHappy Veteran’s Day 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 her.” The couple’s…
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What I Know Now
She was suffering complicated griefWhen I moved to San Francisco in 2001, I drove east to spend the weekend with my Aunt Loraine in Tracy, California. I had not seen her in well over 2 decades. Since last we had seen each other, her husband, my uncle Dick, had died unexpectedly when she was 54 – note it was…
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