by Amanda C Vesty | Feb 10, 2020 | Environment, Grief, Uncategorised, Well Being
Last Wishes is an offering to you and for you. What is the point of it? Why bother? What is my/our interest in death all about? I’m passionate about you, yes you, out there, sat on your computer or your phone or your tablet reading this. I’m passionate about people,...
by Amanda C Vesty | Feb 1, 2020 | Environment, Grief, Uncategorised, Well Being
Dealing With Grief – How can trees help us on dark days? Just as in the deep earth the trees send their roots into a place without light, so it is that we journey through days of darkness out in the world and some of us through dark soul times too. Counting our...
by Amanda C Vesty | Oct 1, 2019 | Children, Humour
The Death Of Cock Robin While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning voices of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently his five year old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that a proper...
by Amanda C Vesty | Sep 20, 2019 | Funerals, Humour
A Timely Round A Timely Round… A man and a friend are playing golf one day at their local golf course. One of the guys is about to chip onto the green when he sees a long funeral procession on the road next to the course. He stops in mid-swing, takes off his golf cap,...
by Jean Francis | Sep 8, 2019 | Celebration of Life, Ceremony, Death, Funerals, Uncategorised
The healing power of a good funeral When Colin, my ex-husband was told he had only a short while to live he asked me; a newly ordained OneSpirit Interfaith minister if I would write and conduct his funeral. I began to put words together and as I read them to him over...
