Grief is a Ritual

Where do I begin to share the lessons learned over the past 365 days? How do I summarize all my learnings, all my reflections, all my understandings? I don’t think I can, but I know I definitely can try. One of the biggest gifts that this season of grief gave me was the ways in…

“Don’t leave me alone” – words I repeated, over and over again – to everyone who visited me, to everyone who asked me what I needed. Do you know how beautiful it is to witness and feel all the love, passion, and care that you poured out, be poured back into you? I never doubted…

I woke up – like any other Sunday morning. I did find it odd that Dom wasn’t in bed and already in the kitchen. I could tell he was antsy. We moved all our plans up by 3 hours. We went to the grocery store, then I sat on the couch looking at the 100…