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Category Archives: Daily Ramblings
About Those 7 Things
Here is a blog post I just read. It is from 2015 and if you are grieving the loss of a child, I am sure you have read or written something like this. I probably read it three years ago … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Friends and Family, Healing, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit, Memory, Progress
Tagged deathofachld, friendsandfamily, grieving parents, hawaiianmusic, Jake, lessons, longing, Loss, love, music
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A New Year, Nothing New
I have been kicking ideas for a post around for the previous few weeks, but couldn’t quite coalesce them into a coherent form. I am still looking for something to bring these random and disparate thoughts and ideas together. So … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Jake Colman, Observations, Progress
Tagged forgiveness, Grief, grieving dad, lossofason, newyear, roshhashanah
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Post Father’s Day Post
This past Sunday was Father’s Day, or as I now call it, Effing Father’s Day. The third without the son who made me a father. There was a time when I revelled in my fatherhood, had some epic times on … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Daily Ramblings, Friends and Family, Jake Colman, Memory, Progress, Sadness
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Lost in Space
It has been nearly two months since I visited these pages. For some reason, the imperative to write is strangely absent. I have had thoughts of writing about Passover, Mother’s Day, the onset of the summer with Father’s Day, a … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Daily Ramblings, Jake Colman, Other Media
Tagged coping, deathofachild, Grief, grievingdad, grievingparent, lossofachild, Sadness, senseofimmenseloss, vastloss
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Past or Present?
When talking with people, people who may not be familiar with your story, people who you have just met, there comes a moment that every parent who has lost a child dreads –the question, “So, do you have children?” If … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Grief, Jake Colman, Observations, Progress
Tagged #rememberingJake, absence, coping, friendship, Grief, grieving dad, lossofason, onedayatatime, pastandpresent, unansweredquestions
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6 Things About My New Normal
Grief literature is filled with the concept of the “new normal”. It is usually portrayed as the goal for people grappling to rebuild their lives after a traumatic event. The idea is, in a situation which appears so surreal – the destruction of your … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Daily Ramblings, Grief, Jake Colman, Observations, Progress, Sadness
Tagged Anger, deathofachild, giftofdays, grievingparent, indifference, life, newnormal, Sorrow
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Father Day’s Aftermath
I realized today that I have written exactly three installments of this blog since January 1. Oh, I have kept the blog alive by reposting other articles, other’s words. In my last post of March 23 I talked about how … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Daily Ramblings, Grief, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Sadness
Tagged fathersday, greivingparents, Grief, grievingdad, lossofason, love, newnormal
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The Day the Music Died
When Jake died he took many things with him. He took a possible future where Terry and I became doting grandparents and replaced it with a future where we are that old childless couple sitting on the park bench as young lovers … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Daily Ramblings, Grief, Jake Colman, Memory, Progress, Sadness
Tagged American folk music, deathofason, emotion, friends, Grief, grievingparent, instruments, Jake, music, Sadness, tears, Traditional music
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65,837 Words
I have been collecting all my writings from this past year into one long document that I keep on my computer desktop. It has a feature that counts the words, and with this post I’ll pass 65,000, not counting commentary on other … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Healing, Jake Colman, Observations
Tagged choices, death, deathofachild, deathofmyson, decisions, Mourning, regret, words, Writing
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Another Anniversary
Today is Jake’s Yahrzeit, the Memorial Anniversary of his death. The payment for having two birthdays, one in the “English” or Gregorian calendar and one in the Jewish calendar is that there are now two days on which to remember … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Coping, Daily Ramblings, Grief, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Memory
Tagged anniversary, customs, deathofachild, Grief, grieving parent, holidays, kaddish, lossofason, memory, newyears, Sadness, yahrzeit
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