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Category Archives: Friends and Family
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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Where are My Simchas?
In Hebrew, ‘simcha’ means gladness or joy. It is often used as a noun to denote any celebration because a celebration is always a cause for happiness. Simchas are usually connected with one’s children: births, Bar or Bat Mitzvahs, weddings. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Coping, Friends and Family, Grief, Jake Colman, Sadness
Tagged Grief, grieving dad, grieving parents, holidays, lossofachild, lossofason, new normal, passover, Sadness
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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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Another Double Whammy
Wednesday was Jake’s 2nd yahrtzeit, the anniversary of his passing in the Hebrew calendar. As I have written, the Jewish calendar is lunisolar and the dates drift around with respect to the Gregorian calendar we all use; the two dates rarely align … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Coping, Friends and Family, Grief, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Sadness, Support
Tagged beauty, cemetery, compassion, deathofachld, friendsandfamily, graveside, greivingparents, Mourning
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December 31, 2015
The following post is from last year at this time. That joyous, pineapple martini New Year’s Eve seems so far away, like a fragment of a dream remembered upon awakening. Two years ago we sat in our home, the first night … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Friends and Family, Grief, Honoring Jake, Memory, Sadness
Tagged Grief, grieving dad, grieving parents, holidays, newnormal, newyearseve
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December 28, 2015
Yesterday marked the second anniversary of Jake’s passing. Last year on this day, I wrote a long post about the first year, and what lessons I learned. I don’t have much new to report this year. My cousin is here … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Food, Friends and Family, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Observations, Photography, Progress
Tagged Grief, grievingdad, lessons, movingforward, new normal, newyears
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Thanksgiving 2015
I want to reach out to all of those who may have an empty chair at their Thanksgiving table this year. A chair once occupied by a loving son or daughter. For them, this is a difficult time of year, … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Coping, Friends and Family, Healing, Honoring Jake, Jake's Spirit, Memory, Support
Tagged dealingwithdeath, family, gratitude, holidays, lossofachild, thanksgiving
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One Year On
These are some of the messages I received over the past few days from friends and family remembering Jake and that dreadful day one year ago. • • • Exactly one year ago today, I was walking into my house … Continue reading
Posted in Friends and Family, Friends Write, Grief, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Support
Tagged friendship, memory, one year ago, Sadness
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Lessons of the Year
December 28, 2014 – 10:15 AM As we mark the one year ‘anniversary’ of Jake’s death, I find myself reflecting on the past twelve months, and what, if anything, I have learned. There have been many lessons, both painful and enlightening. It … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Friends and Family, Grief, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit, Kindness, Memory, Observations, Progress
Tagged deathofason, friendship, Grief, grieving parents, Loss, loyalty, memory, Mourning, progress, time, Tragedy, years
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A Darkened Hanukkah
Hanukkah. The Festival of Lights. The holiday commemorates the rededication of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem around 165 BCE. The Romans had sacked and looted the temple, and a band of Jewish guerrillas lead by Judah Maccabee prevailed over the … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Food, Friends and Family, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit
Tagged candles, dreidel, hanukkah, holidays, latkes, light, menorah
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