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The Dress

Posted on: April 11, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

From the Funeral A cute black dress came forward right on time. I was shopping (alone) for something to wear to the funeral for my husband of fifty-one years, nine months. I don’t enjoy shopping, so procrastination prevailed until the 11th hour. This smart black dress with just the right amount of sleeve and buttons […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Uncategorized

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Examining the Light Between Us

Posted on: April 5, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

In 2021 I was gifted a book written by Laura Lynn Jackson named SIGNS: The Secret Language of the Universe. The author is a psychic medium who penned the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven, Lessons for the Living. I found Laura Lynne unique among other mediums I’d met. Before […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One

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Our Beating Hearts

Posted on: March 29, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

It happened last night in a waking dream. The other day I was on a call about grief. In poetic prose, the speaker mentioned “hearing the beating of her heart.”  She repeated that phrase at least three times. I wonder. . . is the beating of our hearts a reminder? Returning to her words, I […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions

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Camp Widow Serendipity . . .

Posted on: March 22, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

… a story. It was September of 2022 in Denver at the local community college. A widow, finding no support options in Mississippi, arrives via a road trip where Soaring Spirits is offering a one-day program for widowed people. What was she thinking when she arrived? She did not know a soul and discovered the […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community

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How Lucky Are We?

Posted on: March 15, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

The Wonder of a Camp for Widowed People (the sequel) It is truly a wonder that a camp for widowed people exists! In October 2021, after I attended my first camp, I wrote about it here. This is the sequel. Camp Widow is a safe place created by widowed people for widowed people. A place […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions

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Transformation

Posted on: March 7, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Days of the “goo” were common, in the first days of grief in spring 2021. Goo refers to what happens to caterpillars after they close themselves up in a cocoon. They liquify and live in the liminal space of “no longer this” and “not yet that” — I relate to those words. The transformation that […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions

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Working Woman Still

Posted on: February 28, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

When Dan was alive he used to tell me I worked too hard. The word “work” mostly referred to one or another creative project in addition to my professional job. He was right. I don’t have great boundaries sometimes and the middle of the night, or the wee hours of the morning, are when I […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One, Widowed by Illness

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A Story of Widowed Life

Posted on: February 22, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

as told by the Nasturtiums Signs of spring are everywhere in Riverside, California. Today’s post is a story board, courtesy of a magical plant whose leaves are a story in and of themselves. Studying a nasturtium leaf brings to mind images of fairies hiding beneath, or tiny creatures using the leaf as an umbrella amid […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Signs from Loved One

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A Love Letter

Posted on: February 15, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

After Valentine’s Day Hey love, I made it through another valentines day — so well, in fact, that I forgot it was Wednesday and I’m just writing this! Writing to you is always easier than writing to others, so here we are, my love, conversing online on the day after Valentine’s Day. Through the lens […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Uncategorized

Valentines, Valentines, Valentines Everywhere . . .

Posted on: February 8, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

. . . it’s here again In trying to take stock of Valentine’s Day past, memory is fuzzy. Images come forward of our last V-Day together… Family room with hospital bed set up Candles Decorative hearts abound Did we eat? It seems a blip on the radar screen of a long goodbye with no clear […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community

Both/And

Posted on: February 1, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Both/And thinking [the opposite of either/or thinking] recognizes the folly of assuming that the new will totally supplant the old. Seeing with Both/And eyes recognizes that two opposite realities can be integrated. Adapted from Daniel Burrus at Burrus Research Today’s repost is certainly one worth sharing again! Today marks two months and two weeks since […]

Categories: Newly Widowed

Inspiration from

Posted on: January 25, 2023 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

The Widow Clicquot Who was 4 and a half feet tall with light colored hair and grey eyes and stormed the champagne industry during the French Revolution? That’s right! Barbe-Nicole: The Lady Herself Barbe-Nicole was widowed in 1805, at the age of 23. Women of that time were not allowed to run a business, but […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Community

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