by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Caregiving, Spiritual
Snowflakes are swirling and falling to the ground to accumulate as a white blanket over all of my immediate outside surroundings. A scenario that is full of illusion. Each flake falls at will. It swirls dizzily, taking part with nature and yet seemingly at the same...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Caregiving, Grief, Spiritual
Christmastime, for many, is a time of dealing with loss. For me, one such Christmastime was the one following my father’s passing when I was a little girl. He had a fatal heart attack just a couple of months earlier. My mother moved through the Thanksgiving holiday by...
by Lillian Lake | | Caregiving
I was watching a national talk show one afternoon on which the topic was “Breast Cancer Awareness”. They gave free mammograms to those who had never had one; survivors related their stories; and tips were given on how to do a self-breast exam. Everyone dressed in pink...
