Toni Lepeska
When a Parent Dies
What do you hold onto that makes you feel close to your deceased loved one? Is it a shirt with their smell? A love letter? Or maybe it’s not an object but a shared cause or creed you foster. Connection. We all seek it but in different ways. I believe it is a critical component …
I lifted the piece of plastic under the gutter drain and plucked a worm from the damp soil. I walked to the little girl at the end of my parents’ driveway, the gateway to 13 acres of beauty. She was visiting with her parents, the people buying the property that’s been in my family 45 …
What is the single biggest component of finding healing within grief, besides expressing it? Embracing the new. Inviting what’s next into our lives. Believing we can love and laugh again. Today is the first day of spring. I hadn’t noticed until I received a life-changing phone text this afternoon, and then I realized the irony. …
