Tag: Grief Loss and Bereavement

  • Love To Calm A Stormy Sea

    Four months ago we organized a small paddle out.  The first one I’ve been involved in. A ‘Paddle Out’ is a memorial to honor friends and loved ones that have died.  A way for surfers to pay tribute to people they have lost.  Everyone paddles out beyond the breakwater where the seas are calm.  They…

  • Mourning A Loss Of A Friend

    One of my friends died on Sunday. She wasn’t a close friend or a best friend, but a friend. She was my sweet friend.  I met her though the repeated crossing of our daughter’s paths.  I did not know her intimately. We merely shared stories and smiles at back to school nights, PTA board meetings,…