There is an old story about a king whose people had grown soft and entitled. Dissatisfied with this state of affairs, he wanted to teach them a lesson.

Life includes a series of passages we must navigate throughout life.

One of the qualities needed when facing the hard challenges of life is endurance.

Living has many angles and aspects to it. It includes feeling alive, enjoying beauty, expressing gratitude, & feeling wonder and excitement.

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

As I ponder with you the grief journey, I’m also reflecting on why I write on grief.

Regardless of where you are on your journey — whether your grieving or supporting someone who is, how you think matters.

Sad is the day when we fail to realize the value of going down into our grief.

Some advice I received when grieving was simply this: be kind to yourself.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost…

Life gives us pain. Our job is to experience it when it gets handed to us. Avoidance of loss has a cost. Having our pain seen and seeing the pain in others is a wonderful medicine for both body and soul.

I have been acquainted with tears for many years now and thought it timely to remind myself of the value of tears today.

If you are grieving right now like I am, the message we need to hear is found in this poem, The Mountain

In the past five weeks, both my father and father-in-law have died. The grief has been real but very different from the grief I experienced when Vicky died.

Next week will mark one month since my dad passed away. I leave to fly to Ontario from BC early in the week to spend time with my family and celebrate Dad’s life on November 10th.

The poem captures a worldview that is quite common. What you need to do, however, is to keep reading right to the end.

Two very different traveling companions will find you or be found by you on your grief journey. One is called Survivor. The other one is called Thriver.

I want to tell you about my dad who breathed his last breath on October 11, 2023.

Words can calm our hearts, comfort our troubled souls, and provide some light for our path.

When you go backpacking out into the wilderness, you carefully plan and prepare, then go on your trip. When we go on a grief journey, it’s usually something forced upon us.