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perience CALL: (415) 431-3717 Hours: 9AM-5PM PST. EMAIL: WECARE@SEVENPONDS.COM PLANNING GUIDE LOCAL RESOURCES BEFORE DEATH AFTER DEATH MULTIMEDIA BLOG SevenPonds Home SevenPonds Blog ← Older posts A Ghost Story” Directed By David Lowery Follow a ghost as he jumps through time and confronts his existence as a memory Posted on May 11, 2024 by Monica Salazar (Blog Writer) SevenPonds The poster for A Ghost Story Credit A24 Capturing the unique emotional experience of grief poses a challenge for any filmmaker. Typical movies attempting to depict grief and loss often feature a sympathetic protagonist—a mother facing her child’s terminal illness, an elderly man coping with his wife’s dementia, or a sibling mourning a brother or sister—and explore how they find meaning after enduring profound loss. However, David Lowery’s 2017 art-house film,A Ghost Story ,” deviates from this standard formula. Instead of urging audiences to empathize with a grieving partner or parent, Lowery challenges both himself as a filmmaker, and us as viewers, to empathize with a protagonist whose name we never learn, whose voice we cannot hear, and whose facial expressions we cannot see. Continue reading → Posted in Lending Insight | Leave a comment Death Doulas Are Gaining in Popularity These death midwives” ease clients through the process of dying and grieving Posted on May 9, 2024 by Mitch Lobrovich (Blog Writer) SevenPonds Death doulas offer emotional and practical support to both the dying and their loved ones. Credit: Alexander Grey The title death doula” may still be a novel term for many people. But these death midwives, as they are sometimes described, are growing in number and acceptance as more people discover their value in navigating end-of-life challenges. Continue reading → Posted in Something Special | Leave a comment KAAN Architecten’s New Visitor Center at the Netherlands American Cemetery A new edifice adds to the cemetery site while enhancing its original purpose: Honoring America’s wartime dead Posted on May 7, 2024 by Caitlin Manner (Blog Writer) SevenPonds In the southernmost region of the Netherlands, in the village of Margraten, is a cemetery dedicated to American soldiers who died in World War II. Originally built as a temporary repository for war dead in the waning days of 1944, so that no Americans would remain buried in enemy territory, the memorial has since become an emblem of the relationship between the two countries. Recently, the cemetery unveiled its new Visitor Center. Continue reading → Posted in Soulful Expressions | Leave a comment Prayer” by Lizzie West Singer-songwriter reminds us that our loved ones live on in the sun and rain Posted on May 5, 2024 by Rachel Jones (Blog Writer, SevenPonds) Named Breakout Artist of the Year by AOL and Entertainment Weekly in 2003, Lizzie West is largely unknown today. Yet she created some beautiful music, including Prayer,” an ode to those who’ve died, and a reminder to their loved ones left behind. Continue reading → Posted in Expressive Music | Leave a comment Rutgers Health Study May Improve End-of-Life Care Medicare data analysis finds that people typically follow one of nine paths Posted on May 3, 2024 by Mitch Lobrovich (Blog Writer) SevenPonds New research aims to keep people on the best path for care in their final years. Credit: Ray Fragapane A recent Rutgers Health study could lay the foundation for improvements in end-of-life care by identifying the nine paths that most Americans follow in the last three years of their lives. Continue reading → Posted in Science of Us | Leave a comment Mary Oliver’s Heavy” Speaks to the Weight of Grief The poet eloquently conveys the dizzying effect of loss Posted on May 1, 2024 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God had his hand in this, as well as friends. Still, I was bent, and my laughter, as the poet said, was nowhere to be found. Then said my friend Daniel, (brave even among lions), It’s not the weight you carry but how you carry it – books, bricks, grief – it’s all in the way you embrace it, balance it, carry it when you cannot, and would not, put it down.” So I went practicing. Have you noticed? Have you heard the laughter that comes, now and again, out of my startled mouth? How I linger to admire, admire, admire the things of this world that are kind, and maybe also troubled – roses in the wind, the sea geese on the steep waves, a love to which there is no reply? — Heavy” by Mary Oliver Continue reading → Posted in The Next Chapter | Leave a comment ← Older posts WELCOME TO OUR BLOG Welcome to the SevenPonds.com blog – a community-driven extension of SevenPonds.com! I hope you find comfort and community in the resources and stories featured here. I’m always happy to hear from readers and can be reached at suzette@sevenponds.com . 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