Leson's Funeral Home and Monumental

05/27/2026

05/27/2026

Gary Sturgis
Author: 'SURVIVING GRIEF - 365 Days A Year'

05/27/2026

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05/26/2026

Grief and loss can carry deep pain, unanswered questions, and emotions that are often hard to express.

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05/26/2026

Grief hurts
in ways words
could never fully explain—

but loving them
was worth
every tear
I will ever cry.

Because even now,
through all the heartbreak,
I would still choose them.

I would still choose
their laugh,
their voice,
their love,
their existence—

even knowing
how deeply losing them
would destroy me.

That's how much
they meant to me. ♥️

05/26/2026

Good morning from Saskatoon! Countdown is on to the start of what we know will be a fantastic couple of days! See you soon, delegates!

05/23/2026

People mean well.

They offer advice.

They tell you how strong you are.

They say things like “they’d want you to be happy,” or “at least they’re not suffering.”

They talk about closure. About moving on. About staying positive.

But here’s the thing—

Until you’ve sat in the front row at a funeral…

Until you’ve looked at a casket and felt like the world cracked open…

Until you’ve had to stand there and say goodbye when you weren’t ready—

You don’t really know.

You don’t know how grief rearranges every part of you.

You don’t know how long the silence lasts after everyone else goes back to normal.

You don’t know what it’s like to carry someone in your heart because you can no longer carry them in your life.

So, if you haven’t been there yet, I’m truly glad.

I hope that day doesn’t come for you for a very, very long time.

But please—

Don’t tell me how I should be grieving.

Don’t tell me what joy should look like right now.

Just sit with me. Walk beside me.

Or let me be.

Because unless you’ve sat in the front row…

You don’t get to hold the mic.

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05/23/2026

There is so much validity to this post 💙

HOW THE DEATH OF A CHILD RESHAPES A FAMILY

When a child dies, the entire family system changes.

Not just emotionally.
Identity changes.
Roles change.
Priorities change.
Even the rhythm of the home changes.

The bereaved parent is no longer simply a mother or father raising a child. Part of their heart now lives in two worlds at once, the before and the after. The before is filled with love and the after is filled with grief.

Their value system often shifts dramatically. Things that once seemed urgent may no longer matter. Careers, social circles, routines, holidays, even future dreams can suddenly feel altered forever.

And siblings often become the forgotten grievers.

While the world sometimes focuses on the parents, brothers and sisters are grieving too. They may feel invisible, confused, fearful, protective of their parents, or even guilty for still being alive. Some become quieter. Some become overachievers. Some begin carrying emotional burdens far too heavy for their age.

They are not only grieving the death of their sibling, but also grieving the version of their family that existed before death entered the home.

In many ways, they are grieving the mother and father they once knew before grief changed them. Deep within their hearts, many children quietly long to have that mother or father back again, the one who laughed more easily, played more freely, carried less sadness in their eyes, and seemed emotionally available in ways that grief sometimes interrupts.

This does not mean the bereaved parent loves their living children any less.
It means grief has changed the emotional landscape of the home for everyone inside of it.

A child’s death does not affect one person.
It reshapes the entire emotional ecosystem of a family.

The goal of grief is learning how to carry love and loss together.

Not perfectly.
Not all at once.
But slowly, intentionally, and repeatedly.

Grief is not about “moving on” it is more about learning the sacred balance of holding deep sorrow while still allowing room for love, laughter, meaning, and connection to exist alongside it.

It is learning to live with both empty arms and a full heart.

Not juggling love and loss as though one must drop for the other to survive, but learning how to hold them together at the same time.

Some days the balance feels impossible.
Some days love feels heavier.
Some days loss does.

But healing for a bereaved family is found in the continual practice of continuing the bond and carrying both love and loss together.

Dr. Cali
Bereaved Mother
Bereaved Parents Advocate
Grief Educator
Compassionate Friend

05/23/2026

My Life, My Grief is the newest book in our children's activity series. Written by Child Life Specialist Ceilidh Eaton Russell, this workbook aims to support children who have experienced the death of someone close to them. https://buff.ly/493fxGx

05/23/2026

Can we talk about grief brain for a second?

Because nobody warns you about this either.

The forgetting....

The losing your train of thought mid sentence....

The walking into a room and standing there with no idea why you came.

The reading the same paragraph four times and still not knowing what it said.

The appointments you forgot.

The names that won't come...

The words that disappear right when you need them.

The feeling that your mind used to work and now it just...doesn't. Not the way it did.

And then on top of all of that...

You're hard on yourself about it.

Like you should be functioning better.

Like everyone else has it together and you're the only one standing in the kitchen trying to remember why you opened the fridge.

Stop.

Grief is not just an emotional experience.

It is a physical one.

It rewires your brain.

It floods your body with stress hormones that affect memory, concentration, focus and sleep.

You are not losing your mind.

You are carrying something so heavy that your brain is using every available resource just to get you through the day.

There is nothing left over for the small stuff.

And that is not weakness...

That is biology.

That is your body doing exactly what it was designed to do when it experiences profound loss.

So the next time you forget something.

Lose your words.

Walk into a room and stand there blank.

Be gentle with yourself.

You're not scatterbrained.

You're grieving.

And your brain is working harder than it has ever worked in your life.

Give it grace.

Give yourself grace....

You're doing better than you think.

05/23/2026

Please keep Veronica’s family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.

It is with deep sadness, the family of Veronica Margaret Lozinski of Torrance, California, formerly of the Canora, Norquay, and Hyas district announce her passing on May 1st, 2026. Veronica was born on the family farm on February 19, 1937. She attended Moss Lake School graduating from Canora Composi...