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Happy May. I realized that my last update was in March. Thanks for your ongoing support. The other day, I rediscovered a phrase that is capturing my attention. "Grief literacy". I think it's what I'm doing in conversations with people, in writing at Finding Words in Hard Times, and in other places. I'm trying to help us learn about grief. Not so much as counselors, though we give people counsel, n...
Keeping learning.
May 24, 2024
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Dear coffee supporter - The chaplaincy office at our largest hospital was moved recently. All of us are learning new traffic patterns (we’re closer to the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Units), new workstation dynamics (at most we have four in the office during shift change, but we used to have six workstations and now have four), new locations for office supplies. And, when we first mo...
When little things are disrupted.
Mar 22, 2024
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I try to write about once a month to those of you who support my coffee, my writing, and my research. My bout with COVID-19 in January slowed me down in some of my usual updates. It wasn't bad, not nearly as hard as the cases I saw four years ago at the hospital. But my thinking was a little more fuzzy than usual, and for a time, all the coffee I drank tasted old. (It wasn't actually old. It was a...
An update
Feb 16, 2024
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