To the remembering
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This month is it. March. The angel-versary, death-versary or fill-in-the-blank-versary. There is no celebrating. Only and ever, the remembering and forgetting again.
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Letters from Stanford
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They say it is never too late to apologize. Will forgiveness, understanding, and acceptance make a difference? We can hope.
Read MoreThe Blueberry Catastrophe
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Whether the forgetting is circumstantial, a lack of mindfulness, or time induced, I don’t like it one bit. Forgetting sucks.
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The Day the Music Stopped
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Standing at her graveside, the elder told the story, in native Anishinaabe tongue, of how the world began. We didn’t know a single word yet understood we were in that place where death and birth meet.
Read MoreMy Book of Dreams
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Shortly after my daughter was born, I was so taken in by the miracle of life, I wrote a lengthy composition on our shared birth experience. Writing about her birth and rereading it periodically, I could relive the joy and the possibilities of all that lay ahead.
Read MoreWedding Band
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The loss of innocence and trust hurt worse than the black eye. You can walk away.
Read MoreThat moment when the cake falls over
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You know how it feels. One minute you're enjoying a beautiful wedge of chocolate layer cake with that special someone and the next, it's gone.
Read MoreThe Blue Dish Christmas
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That particular Christmas is the last time our table felt full. The memories are still bittersweet.
Read MoreThe Dad We Know As Mighty Moe
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Sheldon Cooper describes his spot as a "single point of consistency in an ever-changing world", so when I "saw" my dad seated at the next table, the memories came calling.
Read MoreGratitude for the Old Soul
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We all know at least one old soul. Why do we love them so? What might we learn from them? We delight in their wisdom and long for more.
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The Day the Music Started
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I went into childbirth labor on Halloween night an hour before midnight.
Read MoreNight Crawling on Anywhere Avenue
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What do elder life transitions, closure, and downsizing have in common? They are complex yet melancholic occasions for mindfulness as we cover unfamiliar ground.
Read MoreThe little fish who flew on Northwest Airlines
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In this story, about the things we do for our pets, the phrase “no one left behind” comes to mind.
Read MoreCasting On Connections
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Remembering the interactions between family generations can be a loving way of witnessing our grief like a thread of yarn woven through our connected lives. These connections hold us up when we need them most.
Read MoreRemember with me, that's your gift
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A person in grief wants to remember and talk about their loved one despite the double-edged sword. How can you help when they can't ask?
Read MoreThe Joy of Small Things
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The joy of remembering the small things, the snippets of memory that trigger a deluge of emotions or provide a moment of reprieve.
Read MoreGrieving a loved one as you age
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A conversation on how our aging may impact how we think and feel about loved ones we are grieving.
Read MoreFrom Pine to Palm
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From Pine to Palm is Lena's autobiography written during her House Seminar at Brander Hall, Stanford University, March 2000.
"From the womb of a white mother, came forth an olive skinned infant born into two worlds. . ."
