by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Apr 9, 2020 | Community, Relationships, Ritual/Remembering
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book “Love in the Time of Cholera” set its love stories in the midst of calamity. The title plays on the double meaning of cholera in Spanish – referring both to the disease and to rage. So, love as calamity, love despite calamity and...
by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Dec 8, 2019 | Community, Grief/Grieving, Ritual/Remembering
ephemera: things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time The life of this world is wind Windblown we come, and windblown we go away. All that we look on is windfall. All we remember is wind. Charles Wright I wanted to write about the challenge of...
by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Nov 4, 2019 | Community, Grief/Grieving, Relationships, Ritual/Remembering
One of the silver linings of working on Saturday mornings is that it gives me the opportunity to listen to “This American Life” while driving on a relatively clear 405 (another silver lining). On this particular day in 2016 the theme was “One Last Thing Before I Go”...
