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A Thank You to Crisis Text Line

June 1, 2020 Mark
The Crisis Text Line Hoodie

The Crisis Text Line Hoodie

The hoodie allowed me to journey with texters to have them discover and achieve a cool calm.  I am beyond grateful for being allowed to journey with them.

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200 Hours: A Retrospective Analysis

May 27, 2020 Mark
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Kubrick “Sometimes the truth of a thing is not in the think of it but the feel of it.” I feel that my decision to become a crisis counselor with Crisis Text Line gave me as much as give those in crisis. You should consider joining.

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The Wound Called Grief is Love: Anniversary Edition

May 12, 2020 Mark
Cake Topper May 15, 1983

Cake Topper May 15, 1983

Anniversary grief is subtle when it starts. You know the date and in your mind there is a smile remembering what happened that day and all that make the 28 years that followed. Then one morning you wake expecting to do the usual calling Donna just because it's what you do to greet the day. Today it's a plaintive cry imploring the gods to ease the pain settled in your bones.

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Tags @miller7, @DinaLRelles, #hywc, #grief, @CrisisTextLine, @noraborealis
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Epidemic of Loneliness, Despair, & Suicide in The Elderly

April 22, 2020 Mark
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I was living, barely, devoid of meaning after Donna died. I was part of the epidemic of loneliness and despair. I didn’t know when I went though that writing exercise there is more behind this than just my grief journey. 

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Tags @CrisisTextLine, #elderly, @ASlavitt, @miller7
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Why I Volunteer on Crisis Text Line (aka Why I'm Here)

March 30, 2020 Mark
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Meaning will not happen because we wish it. It happens with careful tending, watering, and fertilizing. It took me years to find meaning, new or otherwise.

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Volunteering to Find Meaning and Purpose

March 18, 2020 Mark
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Not sure when I started to consider volunteering. It was not easy to consider it as an option. Nothing says retired, old, unless, and without meaning and purpose as does “I am volunteering at...” Don’t get my message here wrong. I am not besmirching volunteering. Without people doing it much of the greatness humans offer other humans evaporates. It is more about me being unaccepting of me as I am. 

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Tags #hotyoungwidowsclub, @CrisisTextLine, #griefsupport, #hospice
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My Two Families

March 12, 2020 Mark
Our Wedding Invite

Our Wedding Invite

My solo grief work and journey has changed. I can say that I am no longer a solo griever because I have two families. Hot Young Widows Club is my family who absolutely understands my grief. They know me without knowing me. Crisis Text Line is my other family. In some ways similar to my HYWC family. With my Crisis Text Line family I can become more of the person Donna loved into being.

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Tags #hywc, #hotyoungwidowsclub, @CrisisTextLine, #grief
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