Bereaved Parents, Child loss, flowers, garden, garden photos, gardens, Life, Loss, Mental Health, Photography, Photos

How Gardening Eases Mental Health Struggles

When we face an injury or illness, we hope the doctor will ease the pain or cure it. But, with mental health struggles, sometimes there is not a cure. There is only something to ease the pain.

Art, Literature, marriage, Mental Health, Poetry

Walk Along the Beach, a poem

I reach for your hand to walk along the beach. White sand between toes can be twenty instead of ten I reach for your hand, but you turn away to look at orange streaks of sky. Small fires reflect in your eyes. Sometimes I see the mountain shades of the blue of Blueridge September skies… Continue reading Walk Along the Beach, a poem

Education, Family, Life, Poetry, PTSD, Writing

A Better Place, a poem

"Get up and smile," someone says. "You're going to a better place." They say it like "All dogs go to heaven." Your best pet went to live on a farm upstate. The battles are over, The fires put out, Some think I'm crazy to compare a house of learning to the place where militia hide… Continue reading A Better Place, a poem

autism, Family, Friends, parenthood, parenting

Six Ways: The Change from Selfless to Self-full

What do you do when life goes a different direction? What do you do to battle the depression? via Six Ways: The Change from Selfless to Self-full