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48-Hour Grief   By John T. Schwiebert, MDivjohn@tearsoup.com     The personal grief that gets the most attention is usually connected to the most profound losses that human beings can experience: the death of one’s child or one’s spouse, for example. Grief in such cases takes a great deal of emotional energy especially in the early weeks and months.  It also takes forever, it seems, to get through it.  For one “making tear soup” in such cases the largest pot is...

(Mother's) Day      .     Where I had imagined breakfast in bed, I found only tears on my pillow. Where I had imagined flowers and a card, I found only flowers on her grave. Where I had imagined a home of happy chaos and noise, I found only weeping through silence. Where I had imagined my child at my chest, I found only emptiness and aching. Where I had imagined Motherhood celebrated, I found only another painful reminder...