by Susan Haldane | Jul 4, 2017 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
He came to us when he was six months old. He needed a farm home because as a mostly border collie, he was steadily shredding the downtown city home where he lived. Now he’s 14, and it’s hard to remember a time pre-Riley. In the past few months we’ve been forced to...
by Maryanne Pope | Jun 27, 2017 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, Our Family Stories
The following post is an excerpt from an interview Threads of Life member Maryanne Pope did with Rebecca Orr. Rebecca’s husband, Lance, was working as a rigger on a construction site, and was killed on the job while Rebecca was expecting their daughter, Caitlin....
by Jan Falls | May 16, 2017 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
In her blog Heart Poems, counselling therapist Jan Falls shares poems that have touched her deeply. She writes “A gift is meant to be shared, given away to the larger world. These [poems] are gifts I have received that I want to pass on to you. Sometimes doors open...
by Susan Haldane | Apr 11, 2017 | Day of Mourning, Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, Health and Safety
I’m not the best at skipping flat stones across water, but I’ve had a few multiples – the stones that ricochet off the water several times before finally sinking into the depths. It’s absorbing to watch the ripples move out from each point where the stone contacted...
by Shirley Hickman | Mar 28, 2017 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
The Hickman family today I have been dreading this day for a few years. Very strange you may say. What makes this day, April 2, 2017, different from any other? This is the day that Tim will have been dead longer than he lived. Very strange, I even say to myself. It’s...
by Maryanne Pope | Feb 7, 2017 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
My husband, John, was Greek Canadian. He was born in Canada. His parents immigrated here from Greece in 1958. The family was Greek Orthodox and attended church regularly. John’s family were lovely people and warmly welcomed me – a born-in-Canada Anglican gal with...
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