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Tehachapi lost one of its young shining stars on this past Christmas night. Cierra Redenius was killed in a traffic accident on Highway 14, on her way home from a holiday trip. According to the newspaper report, she was almost home, just north of Lancaster, when the car she was in rolled over,...
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The Worldwide Candle Lighting is one day out of the year when you can remember a child who has died and know that the world remembers with you. It is a day when you can light a remembrance candle and know that yours is joining with hundreds of thousands around the world.
This Sunday, December 9,...
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Jordan’s Christmas Song
You were the lights on my Christmas trees,
The holly that decked every hall,
The glow of the Star of Bethlehem
And the glitter on Christmas balls,
The water that made up Frosty’s snow
And the magic that brought it to life.
But without you,...
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I tell about my personal pain not because I feel somehow special or different, but because of my belief that in examining any one human story a greater truth can be gleaned. We all struggle with death, loss, that path that turns one way and not the other. My story is your story, just change the...
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I got to thinking about this because I notice it myself~my reaction to things is way off kilter still.Waking up screaming "no" from some nightmare does not make me feel like any resolution has occurred fro me personally.A comment about another poster here being a "pot...
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Finally I think I can write about this,on this Mothers day.Forgive the disjointedness,I am of course crying ,laughing and trying to make sense~difficult.
We both got sick within a day of each other,usually he'd get a bug ,I be nurse and get it after he was well.This time was different....
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I wrote this soon after K.s death,in part to address the fact no memory of my life will go on after me..but I have learned this is not entirely true,my friends children,their children will carry some of my spirit with them..it is all any of us can...
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It comes on soft like petals or goose down
It comes on hard like hot flashes or blisters from burns
One takes my breath away immediately
The other slowly steals my hearts beat
In just a few days the clock will mark the hour,the day of your death
My death too
Trying to contain...
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A lovely ceremony takes place tonight at 7:00 tonight. A candle is lit in memory of all those children who are no longer with us.The image of a wave of light beginning on a spot of the globe, each moment that passes another candle being lit as 7 o'clock is reached around the world is beautiful,...
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After Pat's Birthday
By Kevin Tillman
Posted on Oct 19, 2006
Editor's note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005,...
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Of course I chose this week to do the chore~finally~ back to school week, a week that I wanted not to think about..and K not being here. It takes nothing to plunge me back into darkness. I poke,rend,probe the wounds~ working this I under go what is. I wait for the turning,...
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There have been two times in my life that I have fallen to my knees in grief.
Once was after my daughter, Marlena, died. I am trying to recall – it must have been a little less than a month later, when some of the initial numbness was wearing off. I remember I walked from the...
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