I Look To The Mourning Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Look To The Mourning Sky write by Liz Newman. This book was released on 2021-12-13. I Look To The Mourning Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I Look To The Mourning Sky: A Book of Poems and Writing Prompts for the Grieving Heart is a collection of poems for anyone who has experienced the immensity of loss. Its poems are written through the first year of grief and they seek to acknowledge the pain and complexity of this journey, which can be so isolating and overwhelming. While grief is a lifelong experience, it is something that is constantly changing and evolving. Its landscape is unpredictable and unrelenting. I Look to the Mourning Sky is a collection that seeks to meet people in the storms of their sadness and remind them that they aren't alone. Also included are twelve writing prompts centered around grief and processing. Whether your grief is fresh or you can't imagine a time you weren't carrying it, these poems and prompts are written with the goal of giving you a safe space to feel the ups and downs of loss and to heal in your own way at your own pace. Whether you are an avid writer or can't remember the last time you ever put pen to paper, these prompts are designed for you: to write your story, to share your story, to make sense of the things you don't say aloud. The love you still have for who and what you've lost is so deeply important. The chapters of their love and the pages of memories are yours to keep. Your grief, their story, and how it's helped you write yours: it matters. It all matters. I hope this helps you on your journey.
Red Sky in Mourning
Red Sky in Mourning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Sky in Mourning write by Tami Oldham Ashcraft. This book was released on 2002. Red Sky in Mourning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
October Mourning
October Mourning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook October Mourning write by Leslea Newman. This book was released on 2020-09-01. October Mourning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard’s murder on the world. On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. Gay Awareness Week was beginning at the University of Wyoming, and the keynote speaker was Lesléa Newman, discussing her book Heather Has Two Mommies. Shaken, the author addressed the large audience that gathered, but she remained haunted by Matthew’s murder. October Mourning, a novel in verse, is her deeply felt response to the events of that tragic day. Using her poetic imagination, the author creates fictitious monologues from various points of view, including the fence Matthew was tied to, the stars that watched over him, the deer that kept him company, and Matthew himself. More than a decade later, this stunning cycle of sixty-eight poems serves as an illumination for readers too young to remember, and as a powerful, enduring tribute to Matthew Shepard’s life. Back matter includes an epilogue, an afterword, explanations of poetic forms, and resources.
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Goodbye write by Meghan O'Rourke. This book was released on 2011-04-14. The Long Goodbye available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Anguished, beautifully written... The Long Goodbye is an elegiac depiction of drama as old as life." -- The New York Times Book Review From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond. O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss. With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.
I Look to the Gentle Rain
I Look to the Gentle Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Look to the Gentle Rain write by Liz Newman. This book was released on 2023-08-04. I Look to the Gentle Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I Look to the Gentle Rain (book 2 of the Mourning Sky Series) is a book about a grief journey continued. Its poems are reflections on living in the tension of great love and great loss and what it looks like to honor both along the way. I Look to the Gentle Rain seeks to acknowledge that grief evolves and persists but so does the love we've been given. Also included are 12 poetry and journaling prompts for further reflection. This collection seeks to honestly explore the very real ups and downs of continuing to navigate the uncertain terrain of grief. We all have our own sky of mourning to look to when we suffer a great loss. And with it will come all kinds of changing weather. Some days will be downpours of sorrow. Others will have rays of unexpected joy. And still, others may be something else entirely: soothing to our aching heart. Honoring our need to release the floodgates of emotions we feel in light of our loss. Watering the ground level of our grieving hearts with the love we wish to share. And despite all odds, growing the hope that's been planted there. Because grief may remain here, but love remains here too. And that love continues through me. That love continues through you. It will be evident in everything we do. May this book be a soothing balm to your aching heart: a Gentle Rain
