The flowers once planted in Sping are now long gone. The trees are nearly bare and Winter is now here. Nature teaches us so many lessons if we listen.

I have returned to grief work in every area that I work in and I have come to realize that grief is often cyclical like the seasons for many. Death anniversaries are reminders of loss and what we so desperately cling to remembering our loved ones how they once were.

Both nature and life have seasons. Birth is Spring and Winter death and then rebirth and the cycle continues. These are the seasons and the constant flow. This is life.

Grief work reminds me of my own grief that which I still hold close. My own grief has transformed and lightened and yet it remains.

Everything and each experience is connected. Life is a series of random or not so random events and experiences. It is important to relish it all and be true to what comes and goes.

There are many things that we don’t even consider grief in this life. Moments and experiences that are important and sacred.

Think about the brief romantic engagement that stirred your heart?

The baby that lived briefly within your neighbours womb.

The family that moved across the street to another country far away.

We are all connected even if we believe we are islands.

We are here on this blue planet together and mysteriously interconnected.

My own grief work has given me this.

Embrace connection.

Grieve everything that goes and bless everyone and everything.
Embrace living and believe that hurt will be no more in just a little while for everything is passing.

We are clouds passing in the sky.

The gleam in a lovers eye.

The warmth of loves embrace and the sweetness of a sacred kiss.

We are with a multitude of heavenly songs

We are one in the day and with the night.

As the world spins we are here.

Be this breath, this song this life.
This Joy, this hope and the eternal light