• A Grieving Mother Finds Her Calling in Supporting Pediatric End-of-Life Care (Interview)An interview with Toula Saratsis, a pediatric death doula

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    A Grieving Mother Finds Her Calling in Supporting Pediatric End-of-Life Care (Interview)
    An interview with Toula Saratsis, a pediatric death doula



  • An Unexpected Death Brings Our Family Together

    One winter night in 2005, I received a phone call – one of those dreaded calls we all know could happen at any moment, try as we might to forget […]

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  • The Beauty of Death XIV by Khalil Gibran
    Part Three – The Remains

    Unwrap me from this white linen shroud and clothe me With leaves of jasmine and lilies; Take my body from the ivory casket and let it rest Upon pillows of […]

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  • The Beauty of Death XIV by Khalil Gibran
    Part Two – The Ascending

    I have passed a mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the Firmament of complete and unbound freedom; I am far, far away, my companions, and the clouds are […]

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  • The Beauty of Death XIV by Khalil Gibran
    Part One – The Calling

    Let me sleep, for my soul is intoxicated with love and Let me rest, for my spirit has had its bounty of days and nights; Light the candles and burn […]

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  • SevenPonds

    SevenPonds

    While this marks the first entry into the SevenPonds blog, this is not the very beginning. The beginning was all the summers I spent with my Swiss-born grandparents, Otto and Ida Gilomen, at their home on the shores of Seven Ponds, a group of seven small glacier-cut lakes in Metamora, Michigan. The person I am…

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