20 New Year’s Dont’s for The Sick and Bedridden: Part 3

1.     Don’t overstay your welcome and pull from the minimal energies they have to sustain their life. 90 minutes is as long as they can tolerate at any one sitting. 2.     Don’t Chatter and talk to fill the silence. Let void and space be OK. 3.     Don’t fill their space with YOUR holiday traditions. Be […]

20 Precious Holiday Gifts You Can Give The Sick and Bedridden: Part I

He’s all by himself on Christmas in that depressing assisted living center. You feel bad for him. But you’ve got your own family to think of and all the stressors of the season to go with it. And it is all on your shoulders: the food, the gifts, the decorations, parties and the thank-yous. Plus, […]

Bury Tales: Death By any Other Name

Death By Any Other Name By Dr. Aviva Boxer, OMD Just mentioning the word ‘Death’ makes even the most callous of persons stop in their tracks and pause with the dear-in-the-headlights look before they can collect their thoughts and then respond.  To circumvent this problem we have come up with many ways to say death. […]

If These Walls of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Could Talk

We are the walls, in The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. We hold the spirits and hear the whispers, of the bones, of the silent anonymous souls who gave up their names, their individual mark for the ideals of humanity. All these bones speak one language. The original language. The heart’s language. Their souls are the fossils […]

Never a Dead Mother’s Day

“My life is worthwhile even if I burn all the cookies. The creative process for me is like a path of discovery. So mostly my emotions through it are wonder and curiosity.” ~ Callie Jannoff, Co-Founder, Church of Craft No child wants to miss their Mother on Mother’s Day. No matter what age the child, […]