Category Archives: Grief

Poem: lost

Posted on June 25, 2020 by tealas

Too much is stripped At once, you’re lost Can I lose all this And somehow return? Am I fighting the way It is supposed to be? Just stay still in This astronaut emptiness The ashes are the birth Place of … Continue reading →

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Is it just the absence?

Posted on May 24, 2020 by tealas

We lost my father to Covid-19 about five weeks ago.   These are the last few family photos we were able to take together. There is still so much to process about how we lost my dad, in the midst of … Continue reading →

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Reblog: The Tipping Point of Illness by Charlie Morris

Posted on March 4, 2017 by tealas

Below is a very good article by Charlie Morris from 2010 – one that didn’t make it onto his new website.   I’m reblogging this here because I’ve been living the truth of this article for several months.   Karmic situations … Continue reading →

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Preparing for my father’s passing

Posted on October 15, 2016 by tealas

It is hard to write that line.  You can’t ever “prepare” for your parent to pass away.  Yet as physical decline continues, you realize that there will be a moment that the medicines and treatments won’t meet. Death is not … Continue reading →

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Poem: Dear Friend

Posted on September 24, 2016 by tealas

Dear friend do not fight Or even experience opposition With ignorant black magicians As your mind takes the shape Of what they dream To vanquish them You have lost They are only Being Do not dream as they do

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What I Was Spared

Posted on August 29, 2016 by tealas

I’ve had very little time for writing the last several months. In spring, we had some staffing changes around my father’s care, and I’ve taken on a more active, day-to-day role in managing his care and medications. I’ve been acknowledging … Continue reading →

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Poem: Door-space

Posted on January 20, 2016 by tealas

I showed you a door I didn’t know existed You keep showing me The space that always does

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Being in the mountains, holidays, illness and death

Posted on January 7, 2016 by tealas

My family took a trip to the mountains near Asheville after Christmas. It was the perfect get-away, a rental through a colleague and a chance to see some family who came from out-of-state. Yet I didn’t foresee the impact that … Continue reading →

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Poem: Birthday Greetings

Posted on October 10, 2015 by tealas

Sometimes The kindest birthday greeting Is none To not remind Your friend Of what you’ve become To them, for them Of what cannot be undone The touch of memory is pain The freedom of forgetting The most loving

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Omaha beach and the lunar eclipse

Posted on September 28, 2015 by tealas

Tonight was a night that brought me to tears,  it was such a confluence of unusual circumstances. My son and I went to give my father his nighttime medications.  When we headed upstair to his apartment, I could see a … Continue reading →

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