My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
Beautiful essay from a grieving husband https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/style/modern-love-my-wife-said-you-may-want-to-marry-me.html ...
26 June, 2018
Movie of the week in the Hospice Library
Interested in Green Burial? Check out this DVD in our library, the recent documentary *A Will for the Woods*. "What if our last act could be a gift to the planet? Determined that his final resting place will benefit the earth, musician and psychiatrist Clark Wang...
26 June, 2018
Beautiful story
Two people on hospice find love http://fox13now.com/2018/06/17/hospice-facility-serving-utahs-homeless-population-hosts-wedding-for-residents-who-fell-in-love/ ...
26 June, 2018
NY Times: The Positive Death Movement Comes to Life
Worthwhile read! “Birth was perceived as a medical event, and then in came the women’s movement and ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves,’” she said. “It wasn’t doctors who changed the way we give birth in America. It was women who said that giving birth was a human...
26 June, 2018
Opportunities to Help in the Memorial Garden
If being in nature and getting your hands in the soil appeal to you, consider coming to one of our garden work sessions. They’re a great opportunity to work with others in our lovely memorial garden while contributing to the community by helping to maintain...
26 June, 2018
Third Wednesdays in the Memorial Garden
Third Wednesdays in the Memorial Garden July 18th and August 15th 5:30-6:00 Please come to the Hospice Memorial Garden located at Living Memorial Park in Brattleboro at 5:30 on the 3rd Wednesday of each month this summer for a brief, informal gathering to remember loved ones. The...
19 June, 2018
Fare Thee Well, beautiful song about loss
Here is the beautiful featured song about loss from the film we're highlighting this week, Fly Away Home, sung by Mary Chapin Carpenter, originally a poignant ballad from the 1800s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQBpDkVUEco Fare thee well My own true love Farewell for a while I'm going away But I'll be back Though I go...
14 June, 2018
Movie of the week in our library’s DVD collection: Fly Away Home
Movie of the week in our library's DVD collection: Fly Away Home. Stop by and check out this beautiful film. It's the story of a young girl whose mother dies in a car crash and she must go to live with her father whom she...
14 June, 2018
One regret, dear world
One regret, dear world That I am determined not to have When I am lying on my deathbed Is that I did not kiss you enough. –Hafiz...
14 June, 2018
Getting Comfortable with Grief
Getting Comfortable with Grief Thursdays, July 12th and 19th, 6:30-8:30 pm Brattleboro Area Hospice, 191 Canal St. in Brattleboro RSVP to Connie Baxter, (802) 257-0775 ext. 104 Most of us are unsure of what to say and do when someone we know has experienced a death loss. And the...
14 June, 2018