Posts Tagged: revealing

Tweeting A Mother’s Life

August 12th, 2013
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Over 340 million tweets are sent and read each day.
In the midst of all those competing thoughts, messages and trending topics, Scott Simon posted a large number of tweets late last month that broke through the rush of chatter and caught the attention of  a large part of Twitter’s world wide audience.
Simon, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Saturday host, was sitting beside his mother’s hospital bed and relaying intimate, tender and immediate thoughts about his precious time with his mother in the last days of her life.

 

I can’t imagine having the clarity of mind to tweet … Read More

Dominic Moore’s Comeback After Wife’s Death

July 15th, 2013
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Finding this story in the sports section of the New York Times is a positive sign of how far we as a society have come in our ongoing discussion about grief. Who would have thought even five years ago that a professional athlete would give an intimate interview about dropping out of playing his sport to care for his wife in the last months of her life and how her tragic death changed his priorities? Dominic and Katie Moore The world of professional ice hockey is full of ice, blades, speed, sticks, pucks, mixed in with a very heavy dose… Read More