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No Time for Goodbyes When I was fifteen, my mom died of a heart attack. She and I were so closely bonded that I couldn’t imagine living in the world without her—so much so that in the immediate aftermath of her death, the thought of suicide consoled me. I believed that if I couldn’t be […]
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“You give yourself permission to grieve by recognizing the need for grieving.” — Doug Manning Grief overload is what you feel when you experience too many significant losses all at once or in a relatively short period of time. The grief of loss overload is different from typical grief because it is emanating from more […]
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When Great Souls Die [Editor: this is an excerpt from a poem entitled “When Great Trees Fall” BTW, Maya Angelou as of January 10, 2022 is featured on the U.S. quarter.] When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our […]
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A Bronzeville Mother Loiters In Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon – Poem by Gwendolyn Brooks The murder of Emmett Till in 1955, and the subsequent acquittal of his murderers and public viewings of Till’s mutilated body, stirred the American consciousness and provoked outrage across the country. In 1960, Gwendolyn Brooks published her own […]
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