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By Sherrie Cassel The earth is soaking up the rain, appropriate for today. In California, there has been a drought for many years. I’m not too embarrassed to say; I haven’t followed the information concerning the drought. I don’t know if we’re out of the drought yet, but the rain is like God crying withContinue reading “Working through it”

By Sherrie Cassel Fukushima Mutated Daisies January 22, 2016 @ 5:55 p.m. I walked away from my son’s body for the last time. I had been so full of hope for him. I had finally gotten him to the hospital, and I held on to an irrational hope that my very sick and addicted onlyContinue reading “Joined at the Hip”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel Our children grow up to be the sum of their primary caretakers’ responses to times of imbalance and to times of homeostasis. Children live what they learn. Epigenetics assumes we are not only the sum of our parents’ behavioral and genetic inheritance, but we also must add our ancestors’ genetic andContinue reading “Children Live What They Learn (Revisited)”

By Sherrie Cassel The new year is also a finale to whatever we leave behind of the year preceding it. I said goodbye to my mother, a relationship that spanned sixty-one years, my longest relationship to date, and what will prove to be the longest relationship in my life. I’m wrapping up the last twoContinue reading “Goodbyes and Glad Tidings”

By Sherrie Cassel Every beautiful thing reminds me of my son. Listening to Minnie Ripperton sing “Loving You” this morning was nearly more than I could manage at that precise moment. I wasn’t expecting the emotional overwhelm. The very first note of “Loving You” had me bowled over in physical pain, all the way toContinue reading “The Little Engine that Could — Revisited”

By Sherrie Cassel “Tonight I would be thankful, Lord, for any dream at all.” Mission in the Rain, Bob Hunter and Jerry Garcia There are symbols which are easily recognizable for what they represent.  A yellow submarine. Einstein’s crazy coif, and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, even though Bobby, Phil, Donna, Keith, Mickey, Bill,Continue reading “Grief and Addiction”

By Sherrie Cassel My mom, my sweet and complicated momma, has been gone for three months now; I’ve lived a lifetime in those months. I’ve begun an internship. I’ve learned new and harried traffic patterns and navigated them. I’ve managed to be in a beautiful relationship with a man for whom adoration is mutual. I’veContinue reading “Holiday Check-in”

By Sherrie Cassel How many of you have to rev up for social gatherings since your loved one died? I need a couple of days to prepare my soul for another holiday without my son, and now, without my mother. Grief touches every inch of our lives, of our past, present, and future. I triedContinue reading “Tangled Tinsel”