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o grief

Posted on: July 6, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

you trip me up o grief you sneak up on me you fool me you trip me up   o grief you catch me unawares you pretend a thing is okay you trick me   o grief you seem to be at a distance you move in close you sabotage me   o grief gimme […]

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

July 4th – Our Wedding Anniversary

Posted on: June 29, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Happy Anniversary, my love. Just a couple of kids who fell in love and were married just out of high school. Who knew we’d spend 51+ years together on this earth? A spark made it possible. The spark dimmed at times, but it never went completely out. We learned how to re-ignite it. We had […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Milestones

painted image of Billie Holiday

I’ll Be Seeing You

Posted on: June 22, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l44_n60QQ8 I’ll be seeing you just yesterday you reminded me of your presence when a monarch butterfly came so close to me…flew into the garage and looked around….at the story, when the paint brushes I need showed up in the most unlikely place . . . I am seeing you . . . In all […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions

Year Two: Taking Stock

Posted on: June 15, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

DEFINITION OF “TAKING STOCK” : to carefully think about something in order to make a decision about what to do next 1) We need to take stock of our life now and again. 2) She took stock of her life as she passed the 2-year mark of widowhood. KN Definition & Meaning with Merriam-Webster   Today […]

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

Standing at the Doorstep

Posted on: June 8, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

Of Liminal Space In that liminal space, between what we know and what we can’t imagine, we are remade. –ludwig.guru Standing in front of a closed door reminds me of mystery. What is behind the door? Who might be on the other side of the door?  What does the door open into….a large open room? […]

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

The Introvert in Grief

Posted on: June 1, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

An Underground River of Loneliness A yellow phone similar to this one – the wall version – hung in my kitchen for more than twenty years. In the age of invention, the wall model could be fitted with an extra long cord that stretched through the doorway allowing dish washing, eyes on kids, and baby […]

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

THINKING ABOUT

Posted on: May 25, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

BRAVERY What does it mean to be brave? Definition of bravery 1 : the quality or state of having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty : the quality or state of being brave : courage showing bravery under fire. As I write I am on the doorstep of the Memorial Day […]

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

Exploring

Posted on: May 18, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

The Puzzle of Time Sitting at my desk, on May 17th (a Tuesday) at 8:48 pm Pacific Standard Time. The day flew by with little to count for it. Tomorrow we are mid-week as another week flies by. Time . . . Time is a wily character. It flies when you hope it will crawl. […]

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Strategies for life

Posted on: May 11, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

and hope . . . Looking out my window before dawn I witness evidence of surviving grief.   Abstract but authentic proof of something deep inside that insists upon living fully alive.   Twinkle lights. Twinkle lights bordering the walls of a secret garden.   In the Year of our Lord, two thousand twenty one […]

Categories: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Therapy

Reflections about Grief

Posted on: May 4, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

in the deep waters of the Pacific The mystery of dark blue-black ocean water is enticing and hypnotic—it pulls me in. The ocean’s power reminds me of grief.   My Love, you were with me as I spent my birthday on the rough waters of the sea with thousands of these creatures beneath, before, and […]

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My Love . . .

Posted on: April 27, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

. . . as you know, today is my birthday This is seventy. I’ll be back here after my whaling day. Hoping to see signs of you, but even if I do not . . . I know you are near. I know you are always near. Will be back here to update later this […]

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

Children dropping petals into the grave.

Five Things You MIGHT Experience After

Posted on: April 20, 2022 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

The Funeral 1. Relief In thinking about having a funeral one year after my beloved husband died, many doubts arose. How could we gather friends and family after this much time passed? Would anyone come to the service? We were able to put together a lovely celebration of Dan’s life. And many people came out […]

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions

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