Category: End of Life
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Life|Hospice|The Quiet Work of Letting Go
Sometimes love isn’t loud, and healing doesn’t look like fixing. It’s the quiet presence, the gentle return, the stillness that says, “I’m here.” The Quiet Work of Letting Go is a reflection on the sacred, silent moments of caring for another soul — and what they teach us about grace, patience, and love that lingers.
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Life|65|Reflections on Healing & Remembrance
🌻 The Warmth They Leave Behind Simply Flava | Reflections on Healing & Remembrance Sometimes love doesn’t disappear; it just changes shape. It becomes a blanket folded in a drawer, a photo glowing beneath a lamp, a tumbler on a shelf that still feels like a friend’s steady hand. When I pulled out Sheryl’s Seahawks blanket…
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Life|65|My Work Senior Sister|Remembering Sheryl
Remembering Sheryl 🌻 The first time I met Sheryl was during my in-person meeting at Swedish. She greeted me with a warm smile, a raspy voice, and an energy that immediately felt like home. Later, I’d learn she was a smoker—but that didn’t matter. What mattered was that I had found another seasoned soul to…
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Blog Challenge|60+|My Mission
What is your mission? A meaningful personal mission statement contains two basic elements. The first is what you want to do – what you want to accomplish, what contributions you want to make. The second is what you want to be – what character strengths you want to have, what qualities you want to develop. What…
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60+|Tell Your Story
Tell Your Story: Why Documenting Your Life and Legacy Matters More Than EverBy Susan Koshi aka Lady Flava As I grow older, there’s something I feel more strongly about with each passing year—it’s the importance of telling your story. Not just telling it, but documenting it in a way that future generations can discover, learn…
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60+|80-85 Years Old
Contemplating the Passage of Time: When Do We Want to Say Goodbye? Yesterday, during a conversation with one of my younger coworkers in his 20s, he asked me a question I hadn’t really thought about in quite the same way before: “How long do you want to live?” I paused for a moment, as the…
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