Don't know what to say or how to say it?  Working through your own grief?  Please see these amazing resources contributed by Bethany who was my Mom's Aquafit instructor (senior pool aerobics) and is also a trained grief counselor.  I wish I had had these resources when my father died when I was 20.

• Grief Recovery Method Guide for Loss at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eq8XtXu3QxvFsS6iErM3UiLu_XPYjrHs/view?usp=sharing
• Myths About Grief at https://drive.google.com/file…

Contributed by family friend, and dear friend of David Orr, Verne Simon.  This poem comforted Verne on the passing of his beloved wife Linda from cancer and he shares it to comfort us.

Death is nothing at all

by Henry Scott Holland

Death is nothing at all

I have only slipped away into the next room.

I am I, and you are you.

Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name; speak to me in the easy way which you always used.

Put no difference in your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was; Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same as it ever was; there is unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner,

All is well.

My heart goes out to your family, and in my prayers,

Peace of Christ,

Gerhard

Cherie was one of the kindest and most creative people we had the privilege to know.

And the best neighbor one could ever wish for.

RIP Cherie.  You will missed.

Marta and Chuck