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Enduring Loss
This week’s Soulful Expressions is contributed by artist Diane Teske. If you would like to contribute or recommend art about death and dying, please contact dana@sevenponds.com. FLOWERS FADE from the artist: “I was led by my intuition to do a performance piece in memorium of a friend who was passing away of cancer… Later, a girl that…
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An Interview with Sherri Lynn Wood
I first discovered the craft of passage quilting just a few months ago when I featured artist Sherri Lynn Wood here at SevenPonds, and I was very excited to invite her to chat with us more in-depth about the process. Dana: How does passage quilting help guide people through the bereavement process? Sherri: Quiltmaking has…
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“Imperfect Endings”
A personal memoir that explores assisted dying, family relationships, and the emotional realities of end-of-life decisionsZoe Carter’s busy life on the West Coast with her husband and daughters and an unfinished mystery novel are put on hold when her glamorous and stubborn mother, Margaret, decides that it is time” to end things”. Margaret has been living with Parkinson’s disease for decades, and she is now bedridden and often relies on…
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How to Make a Will
One of the most vital end-of-life tasks is deciding what will happen with your estate after you’ve died. This can be a daunting undertaking, but with a little bit of planning, the burden of this task can be reduced. By learning how to make a will well ahead of the end-of-life, you can lighten the…
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“On My First Son”
Ben Jonson’s touching elegy is both tragic and optimisticWe’re all familiar with Shakespeare, but a lesser known contemporary of his is Ben Jonson, whose plays were more focused on satire. As comical as his stage plays were, however, Jonson actually suffered many tragedies in his lifetime, including the childhood deaths of his three children. He wrote a particularly beautiful poem after his oldest…
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Farewell Chapel at Teharje, Slovenia
When asked to design a Farewell Chapel in Teharje, Slovenia, Ljubljana-based firm Architektura Krušec created a structure that looks deliberately un-unified. Its roof appears to float above the structure, disconnected, and its local-sandstone walls are varying heights throughout the space. The design of the structure intentionally directs the focus of visitors across the surrounding landscape,…
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“Goodbye Solo”
A Fascinating and Ultimately Uplifting film providing an exploration of Loneliness and a Decision for DeathWe never know very much about the two principal characters in Goodbye Solo, a 2009 film by Ramin Bahrani. We learn more about them in the five-minute opening sequence than we do in the film’s remaining 85. A charming and fast-talking Senegalese cab driver named Solo picks up an old, weathered Southern man named William…
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A Readiness to Die
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” -G.K. Chesterton Tomorrow, America and many countries around the world will gather for parades and ceremonies and a somber moment of silence on the 11th hour to honor Veterans Day. Also celebrated in some countries…
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