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09/06/2025

09/05/2025

WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR MOTHER, YOUR WHOLE BODY GOES INTO SHOCK.

Because she was always there.
A constant.
A comfort.
Even from a distance, you could still reach her.
But now… the silence is unbearable.

1. The First Sound You Ever Knew Was Hers
Her heartbeat was your beginning.
That bond was built before you had words,
before you had memories—
a love woven into the start of your life.
Losing it feels like losing the ground beneath you.

2. You Never Stop Whispering to Her
Asking her to show up somehow.
Because she always knew when you needed her,
and now you need her more than ever.
But where is she?
Everyone else can just tap “Mom” on their phone.
You’re left clinging to feathers, sunsets, scents—
anything that feels like her presence.

3. The Ache of Her Absence Never Leaves
She was the one who could make sorrows lighter,
who could make you feel safe again.
Without her, you’re a lost child,
searching, longing, wishing for her voice,
her advice, her laughter, her stories.

4. Grief Becomes a Mirror
One day, you see her in your own reflection.
A smile. A gesture. A laugh.
Little pieces of her stitched into who you are.
And you realize—
you carry her forward,
even in your ache.

Final Word:
Grief never ends, because grief is just love that has nowhere to go.
It is the invisible thread that still ties you together—
the bond between Heaven and Earth.
And though the pain is heavy,
it becomes an honor to grieve her.
Because your grief is proof of the love that will last the rest of your days.

09/01/2025

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09/01/2025

The article below is discussing the ethical issues surrounding memorial diamonds. This is when you put a loved one's ashes into a manmade diamond.

People have always felt a need for self-immortalization. This theme isn’t something new, and evidence of its existence dates all the way back to before the Egyptians. It’s this ingrained desire for self-immortalization that has led to the development of creative burials, memorials, and other cul...

08/26/2025

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08/24/2025

Fire vs water

What remains when you're nothing but CREMAINS?
A Side by Side Look: Flame vs. Water Cremation 💧🔥
What you’re seeing is the physical difference between the two most common cremation methods today.

🔥 Left: Flame cremation- labeled as cremation:
Remains are light gray, often with visible bone shards, even after going through a cremulator (a machine designed to break them down further). The pH of these remains is highly alkaline, not acidic, and if not mixed with a good amount of soil, can harm plant roots and grass.

💧Right: Water cremation- labeled by brand name, aquamation:
After the water part of alkaline hydrolysis is completes, only soft, powdery bone remains once dry. On a scientific level, it isn't even bone anymore, it is now calcium phosphate. 💀

08/21/2025

Grief is like glitter.

The moment your world shatters, it’s as if someone threw it into the air — and it rained down over everything. It settles into your skin, your hair, the deepest cracks of your life.

You try to sweep it up, desperate to feel in control of something. You think you’ve cleared it away… until it shows up again. Months later. Years later. In the corner of a picture frame you dust every week. On the sleeve of a sweater you’ve worn a dozen times without noticing it was there. Stuck to the floor where the light hits just right and suddenly it’s undeniable again.

You’ll never get it all. It will always be there — this glitter of grief, catching the light in both beautiful and brutal ways.

07/19/2025

In our world, we bury the dead.
We light candles. We say words. We try to make peace.

But in the wild? There are no eulogies. No soft goodbyes. Only instinct, silence, and things left unspoken.
Yet somehow… this little creature stayed.
Pressed against the body of one it likely loved.
Not for food. Not for safety.
But for something harder to name.

We like to think emotions are ours.
That pain belongs to poets, and mourning is a human luxury.
But nature tells another story.

Here, on the hard ground, no one’s watching.
No camera crew. No crowd.
And still — it mourns.
Maybe not with tears or with understanding.

But with presence.

Because even in the wild, the heart knows what it lost. And sometimes, even the smallest creatures
carry the heaviest feelings.

07/12/2025

"I came home from a three-day work trip to find my husband had hung "cat-level wall art" throughout our house, and honestly, I'm not even mad about it.

See, our cat Smokey has been struggling since we lost his brother Felix last month. The vet said cats grieve just like we do, and Smokey had been barely eating, hiding under the bed, just completely lost without his lifelong companion. We tried everything - new toys, different food, even playing Felix's favorite bird videos on the TV. Nothing worked.

While I was away on business, my husband apparently decided to take matters into his own hands. He went on the Tedooo app and found this amazing artist who creates custom pet portraits. But instead of hanging them at human eye level like normal people, he hung them exactly at Smokey's height throughout the house.

There's a painting of a cozy cat bed in the hallway, a beautiful fish bowl scene by his food dish, and this gorgeous piece of a cat lounging on a vintage car right here in the living room. When I walked in and saw Smokey sitting there, actually looking at the artwork like he was contemplating it, I nearly cried.

"He's been sitting by different paintings all day," my husband said sheepishly. "I thought maybe if he had something beautiful to look at from his perspective, it might help."

For the first time in weeks, Smokey purred when I pet him. He's been making rounds to each piece of art, and I swear he looks more curious and engaged than he has since Felix passed.

So yeah, I now have a house full of cat-level art gallery, and it's the most thoughtful thing anyone's ever done for our grieving boy. Sometimes love means seeing the world from someone else's eye level, even if that someone has four paws and whiskers."
-Author unknown

05/24/2025

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