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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of lovePost Day of the Dead 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.”…
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A Little One Still Loved
Stephanie Paige Cole’s bereavement of a stillborn daughter blossoms into expression and compassionImagine preparing for the birth of your new baby with all the joy and anticipation of this new being in your life. Sweet reminders of her arrival turn up throughout your home in soft and cheerful colors: a stroller, blankets, tiny clothes. Then she arrives — her name is Madeline, so welcome, loved and …stillborn.…
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How Do Caretakers Take Care of Themselves? (Interview)
In this two-part interview, Angela Farley of Teen Kitchen Project talks about why nutrition is vital for cancer patients and their familiesToday SevenPonds speaks with Angela Farley, the founder and executive director of Teen Kitchen Project based in California. The organization provides nutritional whole foods to families experiencing a serious illness. Teenagers who volunteer get hands-on training in the kitchen providing meals for families. The goal of the project is to give patients and caretakers a…
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“Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory“
A young woman’s funny, heartfelt memoir of working as a mortician and revolutionizing how we think of deathFrom her opening line “A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves,” I could tell this isn’t your run-of-the-mill memoir. Caitlin Doughty’s Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory is at once laugh-out-loud funny and achingly tender. It follows our narrator through her experiences from doing the grunt work at…
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Beyond Halloween
Honoring the dead ancestors with a Wiccan Priestess, Cerridwen FallingstarIn honor of Halloween, I had the opportunity to speak with Wiccan Priestess Cerridwen Fallingstar. At sixty-two, she is stunning in a bright summer dress in the midst of a misty Marin County morning. Cerridwen’s eyes flicker with enthusiasm under long eyelashes as she talks about Samhain, (pronounced SAH-win) one of the two chief Wiccan…
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Death With Dignity Law: One 29-Year-Old’s Decision To End Her Life
Brittany Maynard’s illness is terminal, but she wants to die on her own termsWhen 29-year-old Brittany Maynard chooses to end her life next month, she won’t be filed under suicide statistics. That’s because she isn’t committing suicide. Maynard is one of many who have elected to end their lives to avoid the excruciating pain of a terminal, and 100 percent fatal, diagnosis. Under Oregon’s Death with Dignity law, physicians can legally…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveMiss Your Sweetness on Halloween 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.”…
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