Tag: rituals

The First Year After Mom’s Death: How These Rituals Helped Me Navigate Grief and Loss

The First Year After Mom’s Death: How These Rituals Helped Me Navigate Grief and Loss

My mother died one year ago today. I still remember our first evening without her in the world. Fred, Ron, and I rode through downtown Raleigh with the windows down, and I thought: She’ll never hear the sounds of August again—the cicadas’ song that tell us 

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Our Mom’s Scattering Urn Takes a Road Trip

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Our Mom’s Scattering Urn Takes a Road Trip

By the sweat of your face     you shall eat bread until you return to the ground,     for out of it you were taken; you are dust,     and to dust you shall return. –Genesis 3:19, NRSV All go to one place; all are from the dust,