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Love Notes To Grievers

Love Notes To Grievers

Let go of expectations and timelines.

Book, Book Group Selection, Book Review, Farewell Library, Library, WisdomCaren MartineauJanuary 22, 2024Author, Memoir, Self Help, Family, Grief, Healing, Grief Workers, love, Loss, Non Fiction, Poetry, philosophy, Relationships, Essay, Teacher

This Party's Dead

This Party's Dead

Grief, joy and spiced rum.

Wisdom, Library, Book Review, BookCaren MartineauJanuary 6, 2023Non Fiction, Travel, Memoir, Culture, Rituals, Grief, Grief Workers, Dying, New Orleans, Big Easy, Indigenous Cultures, History, Green Burial, Comedy

The Smell of Rain on Dust

The Smell of Rain on Dust

Shaman elder looks at grief as “a spiritual enzyme”

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauNovember 8, 2022Indigenous Cultures, Native American, Shaman, Tribes, Elders, Teacher, Author, Ancestral, Grief, Rituals, Celebration, Death, Grief Workers