remembrance
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Remembering My Mother
My mother died on December 27, 2003. This is what I wrote for her memorial: Mom died last Saturday. I was with her, saw it, felt it…profound, awesome, frightening, wonderful. I comfort myself by thinking about Mom's dying–and my own,… Continue reading
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Blessing Tree
In 2002, the Christmas after my mom died (two years after my dad died and four years after my sister died), I did something uncharacteristically Dirk; I decorated my tree in stages: I assembled it one night, then put the… Continue reading
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Halloween: Remembering the Dead
Most cultures around the world have festivals honoring or remembering the dead. Why is this? Is it to maintain our ties to the past, to acknowledge how we got here and to whom we owe gratitude and respect? Perhaps it's to… Continue reading