Crescent Dragonwagon
Grief wants to be felt
Holidays tell those coping with loss that while nothing in our lives is the same, the world will continue to act as if it is.
In the fall of 2004, my friend Kay's husband, the love of her life, left this world after a long illness.
Kay decided to keep their tradition, and so, three months later, without her Richard, she went to the annual extended family Christmas weekend celebration they'd always gone to together.
Grief wants to be felt
Holidays tell those coping with loss that while nothing in our lives is the same, the world will continue to act as if it is.
In the fall of 2004, my friend Kay's husband, the love of her life, left this world after a long illness. Kay decided to keep their tradition, and so, three months later, without her Richard, she went to the annual extended family Christmas weekend celebration they'd always gone to...