On Reality and Grief: Reflecting on My Speech for Rick’s Funeral
This is a behind-the-scenes reflection on preparing my speech for Rick’s funeral. Part intellectual exercise on the reality of grief and partly my own honest healing process.
In Praise of Sports: My Speech for Rick’s Funeral
Written in memory of Rick’s passing, this funeral speech is one of my responses to my own grief, remembering and celebrating my friend’s huge smile, character, and heart of a champion.
Good Grief? Here’s the Gift of Grief from My Weird Nightmare
Grief is weird. The nightmares are bizarre (I’ll get to that). But the phrase, “gift of grief” is sometimes, even weirder…In the aftermath of your deep loss, linking the ideas of “gift” with “grief” can feel as strange or jarring as your first quiet birthday with 1 or 2 close friends after their death, or that 50-person family Christmas party after finalizing the divorce and picking up that strangely and morbidly elegant divorce certificate.
Romance with a Squirrel: Wonder and the Power of the Present Moment
I met this squirrel outside my place in Montreal. It was a mundane, subtly hilarious moment. Funny enough, it sparked for me, a moment of wonder. A haiku.
Under the Sakura Tree-Haiku Experiment 9
Sakura (or cherry blossom) trees have a special beauty to them that welcomes you, whether you visit in joy, sorrow or grief. A haiku experiment.
Reflecting on My Path of Letting Go (and it’s not what you think)
The path of letting go is not in forgetting, but in remembering; in surrender to the spirit of gratitude & honouring the truth of your memories.
Tachyon Particles on my 36th Birthday – (Poem Experiment 6)
My birthday isn’t until the summer, but this is just a fun little poem about “tachyon particles” (Star Trek!), and time travel lol.
Gazing Upon A Moonlight Bridge-(Poem Experiment 2)
Join me for fun as I remember an old dream, hallucination, forgotten memory or imagined vision of the night I gazed upon a moonlight bridge.
Upside Down, In Reverse-Haiku Experiment 9
In this haiku, I’m reflecting on different hauntings, especially more unexpected ones. Especially thinking of how the ghosts we might usually feel scared of are, in fact, sometimes, there for purposes the opposite of fear. A haiku experiment.
Black Cat versus The Snow – A Mini Poem Story
A story about a black cat and her “meeting” with the snow.
Based on an actual real-life moment, this reflects how I felt about seeing this play out.
