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Tethered
“The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.” – Raymond Carver Ryan loved to fish. Every summer, Ryan would load up the boat with my husband, Scott, and his uncle Darcey, snacks packed, bait in the cooler and enough gear that you would…
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🌒 What They Don’t Tell You: When Your Child Goes Missing
There’s no manual for this. No welcome packet. No emergency folder marked “In case your child vanishes.” No soft-spoken professional who gently guides you through what comes next. What comes next, in fact, is chaos. One moment, your world is intact. The next, your child is gone—and everything splinters. You wait for someone—anyone—to step…
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Embracing the Paradox: Finding Balance Between Joy and Grief
“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief” ~ Aeschylus Life is paradoxical. We have come to understand from the moment we take our first breath that we will experience great joy at times only to be followed by the deepest despair. The time in between will have…