Click on the image to hear Lori talk about her creative process These days, with so many of our dead cremated, the cemetery is no longer the only focal point of remembrance. Memorial Day weekend is still the high point of any cemetery's annual visitation count, but more and more of us are finding other ways to remember our beloved dead - ways of staying connected that take place all year round.
Alongside the memorials now commonplace on Facebook, a new crop of blogs are flourishing that provide on-line spaces for grief and remembrance.
Check out Modern Loss, for example, which uses high-caliber storytelling to promote "Candid conversation about grief. Beginners welcome." And What's Your Grief, offering useful posts on topics ranging from dealing with whether to read the diaries of the deceased to handling the old losses stirred by new funerals.
Recently What's Your Grief featured an interview with my neighbor, memorial quilt artist Lori Mason. The photographs of Lori's exquisite quilts along with her thoughtful perspective on creating memorial art from a loved one's clothing seemed like a fitting post for Memorial Day. Lori says, "The nature of my role is about hope and healing. I believe in embracing the grief in others and recognizing their loss." Read about Lori's work.
Alongside the memorials now commonplace on Facebook, a new crop of blogs are flourishing that provide on-line spaces for grief and remembrance.
Check out Modern Loss, for example, which uses high-caliber storytelling to promote "Candid conversation about grief. Beginners welcome." And What's Your Grief, offering useful posts on topics ranging from dealing with whether to read the diaries of the deceased to handling the old losses stirred by new funerals.
Recently What's Your Grief featured an interview with my neighbor, memorial quilt artist Lori Mason. The photographs of Lori's exquisite quilts along with her thoughtful perspective on creating memorial art from a loved one's clothing seemed like a fitting post for Memorial Day. Lori says, "The nature of my role is about hope and healing. I believe in embracing the grief in others and recognizing their loss." Read about Lori's work.
Want more stories of loving acts of remembrance? Last year's Memorial Day post featured Monday Hearts for Madalene, "Perfume: An Illustrated Moment," a short film by Teresa Jordan; and a link to Andrea Carlilse's blog of living memories featuring her nonagenarian mother Alice. Or see my posts on Personal Altars, Ash & Earth remembrance stones, Becky Bent's quilt homage to her father, and a remembrance incorporated into a wedding ceremony.
How have you memorialized your loved ones? I'd love to hear your stories.
How have you memorialized your loved ones? I'd love to hear your stories.
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