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The River Bends

May 9, 2023 By Joy Rosenthal

Have you ever felt like your whole world was upended?  When it felt like the rug was pulled out from under your feet, and the firm ground you thought you were standing on suddenly disappeared?   It’s happened to me twice – when my first husband died suddenly in 2001, and 3 years ago when my second husband, Darryl Alladice, died in the beginning of the Covid pandemic. When some big (often unexpected) life event would happen Darryl would say, “The river bends.”  Well, … read more »

Filed Under: Caregiving, Divorce, General Tagged With: common ground, compassion, grief, inner voice, understanding

Who Made the Pie?

November 27, 2022 By Joy Rosenthal

When I was in law school, I was active in an organization called PILA – the Public Interest Law Association. We raised money to sponsor paid summer internships for our fellow students to work at legal nonprofits. We would bake casseroles and sell lunch outside of faculty meetings and hold a yearly auction – real grassroots stuff. Then one year, my friend, Mary Marrow suggested that we hold a Thanksgiving pie sale. I was living in an apartment on 114th … read more »

Filed Under: Families, General Tagged With: gratitude, grief, inner voice

Strength, Courage and Wisdom

April 15, 2021 By Joy Rosenthal

Strength, courage, and wisdom And it’s been inside of me all along Strength, courage, and wisdom Inside of me… India Arie I don’t think there is any question but that 2020 was one of the toughest years on record.  Was it for you?  It certainly was for me.  The year brought one challenge after another – personally and professionally. Everything shut down so quickly!  We thought it was going to last a few weeks… and now it’s been over a … read more »

Filed Under: Happiness Tagged With: compassion, grief, hope, resilience

Ripples

February 28, 2018 By Joy Rosenthal

Ripples by Joy Rosenthal

I know someone who knew a teenager who was gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida last week. I know someone who knew a reverend who was gunned down at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. I know someone who knew a small child who was gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Anyone can feel a Mother’s / Father’s / Sister’s / Brother’s / Nana’s /Auntie’s Life Shattered into … read more »

Filed Under: Children, Mindfulness, Nonviolence Tagged With: Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, grief, Gun Violence, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Newtown, Parkland, Sandy Hook Elementary School, School Shootings

A grieving process

October 28, 2013 By Joy Rosenthal

Several years ago, I became a sudden widow.  I came home to find that my husband had died of a heart attack.  I was relatively young – in my early 40s, and we had many dreams of the future. The next year was a time of realizing, over and over, what I had lost, and I asked myself many questions:  Who was I going to have inside jokes with? Who could I turn to now? How was I going to … read more »

Filed Under: Divorce, Families, Mindfulness Tagged With: divorce, grief

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