Being With Sadness

Sadness is as much a part of life as happiness.  We may wish that wasn’t true, and it can be easy to believe that loss is what happens to other people. Until it happens to you. And then you’re flung into a new world that you have no training for, feeling totally lost and without […]

In Honour of my Friend: A Message from the Dying

by Alex Ratcliffe I have a friend who is terminally ill; she does not have very long to live. And as often happens with these things, she was blindsided with the diagnosis and the prognosis: inoperable. She has faced the inevitable with her typically inspiring strength, dignity and wisdom. Nevertheless, through the tears and the […]