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					<description><![CDATA[I hear the excitement in my musician friend Tim’s voice over the phone as he tells me he’s just returned from Dallas Texas, where he attended a conference for choir directors, (9000 people in attendance.) It’s clear that being in a like-minded community is affirming and often empowering. “Experiencing all those people who love what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I came to writing later than most people if we don’t count writing in a private journal, and the invitation to write that I got from Sister Mercia, my 9th grade home room teacher at Sacred Heart Academy in Louisville Ky. She saw her role as a teacher to be one of identifying students’ gifts [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 02:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[About a decade ago, I expanded my view of loss and what situations need grieving. I had written a book, Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and the Rituals that Heal that illustrated the grieving of personal and familial situations of loss and touched on the involvement of the larger political/social environment in some of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’ve seen it on our screens for days now, the devastation of entire neighborhoods; schools, places of worship, shops, restaurants, and landmarks, all through the eyes of photojournalists whose job it is to communicate and record what’s happening in our larger world. When asked to select and describe their photos, these AP journalists added words. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Here we are in the time of our yearly transition–looking back and remembering the past year. We’re saying good-bye to the old year, (the bearded man stooped over his cane) and while at the same time, greeting and looking ahead into this new year, (the diapered baby draped with the just-being-born-new year clearly labeled on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the cruelest outcomes of the “put it all behind you” and “move on with your life,” philosophy of managing loss is that we miss out on the gifts and life lessons that come through remembering. In a couple of recent events, I have been reminded of some of those gifts. I moved away [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 03:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To become resilient and grow from what happens to us, we must choose to face and metabolize the pain of loss. That’s what the art of grieving is. Psychotherapist Resmaa Menakem describes “clean pain’ as that which is faced and transformed while “Dirty Pain” is pain that is ignored or denied and stuck in our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Power of Community Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With all the media attention on the incoming president’s appointments, you may not have heard that this week, in honor of World AIDS Day 2024, sections of the AIDS memorial quilt were exhibited for the first time on the White House South Lawn. Our current President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden hosted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the holidays approach, the subject of Grief becomes more common in articles, social media posts and advice columns.  And for good reason. These special days of family celebration can be reminders of who will not be at the table this year. And perhaps as the rotation of another year comes around again, we are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’re finally getting the rain we’ve needed all summer which keeps me from my usual slow withdrawal from the outdoors as I return to Pittsburgh from the piney woods of east Texas. The fall women’s retreat was later than usual this year, and I needed it more than usual. But, what’s usual these days? Wisdom [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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