Tag: Widower
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Peace returns to the valley

Amid the storm I think about my wife, as I do every day, but particularly on this day, the day she left the earth.
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Thud! Back to the real world

I was so depressed I was delusional, looking for ghosts in crawlspaces, imagining voices of the dead in my head.
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My own ‘space dancer!’

My Buddhist teacher is cloaked in mystery I have never met her — yes, I do know her gender — or heard her voice. We correspond via email, an annoyingly modern means that seems inappropriate for such an ancient form of enlightenment. But as she would say, and in fact did say: It is what it…
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A long time in the Twilight Zone

Nineteen months after the death of his wife, it is as though she just vanished. Poof! One minute she was here and the next she was gone.
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No venomous snakes in the bungalow

Cats in ancient Egypt were believed to be magical creatures that brought good luck to their owners. Cats killed venomous snakes and protected the Pharoah.

