9/18/14 I am over the Pacific Ocean as I write, traveling from my home on Maui to Berkeley, California. My mother, in her wisdom, proposed the lovely idea of gathering in the Bay Area, inviting me to join her there, along with my sister who lives close by. My oldest friend and Elizabeth’s godmother lives […]
Read moreLeaving Her Body…
One year ago today, the email below I sent to our close friends and family. Now I share it here, with those of you who have joined me on this transformative, healing journey. As I prepared for this first anniversary of my daughter […]
Read moreSlowing Down – emails from the depths, September, 2012
Slowing Way Down Some of the last emails I sent, about my older daughter Elizabeth Blue’s journey towards the ultimate release, from the two weeks before her transition last year. September 14, 2012 Dear Ones, things here are slowing waaay down. No words now, sometimes nodding or shaking her head in response to a question, […]
Read moreHospice – last week of August, 2012
Slipping Closer to the Edge… These writings are from about a month before my daughter Elizabeth Blue died. She was at home and needing 24 hour care, having had a stroke following unsuccessful surgery and chemo to remove the cancer that had spread to her brain. She was in a peaceful state of grace that […]
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