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How to Help Someone Who is Grieving
Experiencing a loss can profoundly affect a person, emotionally, mentally, and physically. If a family member or close friend has recently lost someone, it’s easy to feel helpless, and you may be uncertain how you should act around them. While you can’t make their pain go away, you can be there to support them and…
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Changing the Material
Swedish industrial designer Liv Andersson aims to create products that are an adaptation to the environment, with a holistic view of the life of the product. This project, Dust to Dust, “aims to get a holistic picture of what happens to a person from the moment she dies till she is buried.” By incorporating sustainable…
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An Interview with Sherri Lynn Wood
Read Part One of the interview, where Sherri guides us in the process of healing through quiltmaking. Dana: Do you explain the parallels between the quiltmaking process and the grief process in your workshops or with clients, or do you just let people have the experience? Sherri: I bring it up in a matter of…
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Looking at the essay, “The Love of My Life” by Cheryl Strayed
A deeply personal essay reflecting on love, grief, and the lasting impact of loss“The first time I cheated on my husband, my mother had been dead for exactly one week.” With this powerful statement, Cheryl Strayed begins her personal story of love, life, and death that could very well alter the way we think about the “traditional” grieving process. On the surface, her story concerns the dissolution of…
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Introducing SevenPonds Multimedia
As SevenPonds continues to grow, I am excited to announce the launch of the Multimedia section of our website. This is just one of the fabulous additions that we plan to roll out over the next few months to offer new ways for you to find end-of-life resources. Our Multimedia section includes custom videos, recommended…
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“Requiescat”
Matthew Arnold’s poem shows that death is the most enviable stateI was reading about the famous poet and critic Matthew Arnold recently, and I discovered that he died of sudden heart failure while running to catch a tram. While this is of course tragic, I also had to appreciate the symbolism of it: we think we know what direction we’re headed, and yet, when it…
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Light on Aging and Dying
Helen Nearing and Joan Didion Offer Us Their ThoughtsI was recently rummaging through an old bookstore when I stumbled on a copy of the book Light on Aging and Dying, by Helen Nearing, written when she was a widow. I was familiar with Helen and her husband Scott’s seminal book, The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing’s Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living, having…
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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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