Moving Forward through this Life Adventure

My friend has passed from this life. It was quick - just two weeks since diagnosis, maybe four weeks since symptoms of a fast-growing form of brain cancer. In trying to figure out how to hold this loss in a way of deepening my own understanding of life and to accept it as all part of the Devine Plan, I have been searching for a poem or statement that would express something to comfort myself and others going through a loss. I came across a book I have had for about 15 years, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, which I was reading when my mother was dying of lung disease about that many years ago. Something about the descriptions of what happens after death really turned me off at the time – I couldn’t finish the book. I may take another run at it as my friend had studied many different avenues of spirituality, Buddhism included. So far, the right poem or quote has not come into my awareness.

Without being excessively morbid I would like to figure out a way of exploring this important issue that comes up increasingly often in this time of our lives…dealing with the loss of people close to us and facing our own mortality. Last night at dinner my friend Kathy and I were talking about Creative Oasis Network and what to do next. She suggested a book group or study group of such issues as Angeles Arrien’s book, The Second Half of Life… and other books about how women can claim their power without putting down men. Each of us may have a topic that we would like to explore by reading and discussion with others. So I open that possibility. It would be a no cost, no host get-together in Creative Oasis Network space.

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