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Category Archives: Memory
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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August 19, 2015
August 19, 1989 was Jake’s birthday. In years past, when Jake was young, we would have had a wonderful party, our home filled with friends and family. We had some epic parties. Taking over parks, playing laser tag, (remember laser tag?), … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Coping, Grief, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit, Memory, Sadness
Tagged anniversary, bereavedparent, brightest star, coping, deathofachild, deathofmyson, family, friendsandfamily, Grief, grieving parent
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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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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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If Only Once, If Only for a Little While
This is a web comic dealing with loss, grief and coping. Kinda funny saying ‘comic’ and ‘grief’ in the same sentence, but it is very moving once you figure out what is going on. http://hirosemary.com/If-Only-Once-If-Only-For-A-Little-While Worth scrolling to the end, … Continue reading
Posted in Coping, Memory, Other Media, Print Article
Tagged comic, coping, Grief, Loss, lossofachild, lossofafriend
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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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Light a Candle
The Compassionate Friends/USA Please join us this Sunday, December 14 for the Worldwide Candle Lighting in memory of all children gone too soon. For full information including services around the globe, visit: https://www.compassionatefriends.org/WCL…/2014_services.aspx. If there is not a service near you, … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Friends and Family, Grief, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit, Memory, Support
Tagged Candlelighting, children, compassion, deathofachild, grieving parent, kindness, love, parents, solitude
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Thanksgiving
Well, here it is. Thursday. Thanksgiving. One day before another 28th. Wouldn’t it have been ironic if … well, anyway. This year it feels like someone else’s holiday. Oh yes, I have much to be grateful for. I have a … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Food, Friends and Family, Jake Colman, Memory
Tagged deathofason, family, friends, gratitude, grievingparents, hanukkah, latkes, Sorrow, thankful, thanksgiving
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Golfing With(out) Jake
Jake and I played golf throughout his life. We got him his first set of toy clubs when he was three or four. He would hockey the oversized ball around the yard until he had coaxed it into the big plastic “hole” … Continue reading
Posted in Golf, Healing, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit, Memory, Progress
Tagged deathofachild, golf, grievingdad, grievingparent, hawaii, lossofason, mexico, palmsprings, petedye
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Sukkot
We are in the midst of celebrating the 7-day holiday of Sukkot, the Jewish “Harvest Festival”. After all the fasting and atoning and spiritual soul-searching we are supposed to do during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Sukkot which comes just … Continue reading
Posted in Ceremony, Food, Friends and Family, Grief, Honoring Jake, Jake Colman, Jake's Spirit, Memory
Tagged beauty, grievingdad, holiday, sukkot, visitors
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