Transition and Grief -- while my webmaster and I were working on putting together a site for tributes and remembrances of those who had transitioned from the physical, this new site, www.memory-of.com, came to our attention via an ad on the search engine Google. This central location for posting forever for a very nominal fee is an idea long overdue. To pay tribute, to share one's thoughts, feelings and memories is very much an important part of the grief process. Without grief for any transition, there is no healing. There is no grief without dealing with change. The opportunity to share space in a central location with so many photos, so many diverse comments and for an indefinite time span touches the heart and soul in a positive way to remember the person and to share them with others and with future generations. It also presents a unique way to learn about genealogy and those with whom you are connected through birth over many years.

This site you are visiting currently is about life and shares how one may as successfully as possible navigate it. Do you get mired in the taste of the lemon, which causes you to pucker just thinking about it? Or do you choose to make lemonade, lemon meringue pie, lemon ice cream or any other myriad of possibilities and how do you choose between all the possibilities to make the lemon more palatable. Part of life is about physical death, both yours and those who have impacted on you in addition to your loved ones.

My speciality and this website is about transitions on all levels. The memorial site referenced here and this website are about not only my need to share and give, they are about those who have given and continue to give in whatever manner is appropriate to them on whatever the appropriate level.

My college degree is in public administration with various other college credits in areas such as law. You will not find that here. You will find information shared on life, on communication, in short all the individual thumbnails you see on the home page. In the future there quite possibly will be information on different ways of healing from whatever sources they can be gleaned. There will be definitely information about soul/spirit, mind and body. There will be information on healing and how you perceive life. There might also be a page on Reiki or massage therapy as just a couple of the better known examples. These modalities and what you find discussed on this site are about offering you the tools for life which includes all types of transition and for encouraging you to rejoice in life (with a song in your heart) and hence the URL for this website. Whether we like it or not, life is about transition and change. My speciality and extensive training and yes even avocation is about teaching transition and how as inhabitants of this planet we deal with the inevitable in life -- which is change. Will we have a role in directing it? How will we react to what occurs, including the death of love ones? What was their means of leaving, disease, suicide, war, famine, etc. and how as survivors we deal or frequently fail to deal with the ultimate question on physical life, i.e., its termination.

This site, over the course of time, will offer you a variety of tools to assist you. I am not a psychologist or a psychiatrist. I have no interest in being either. I like to learn what they have to offer and so will include information from that modality if appropriate and available to me. This site is about your choosing from all the alternatives available to you as an increasingly informed consumer. Not all of those who come here will be comfortable with any of the options offered. That's okay. I congratulate those who having considered the various options and choose to say "thank you; however, no thank you" on being open enough to at least learn there are many roads leading to the desired end. I will provide all visitors with the opportunity to taste the potential within them. I am a facilitator. You are in charge and ultimately make your own decisions on the road you will travel. It is my road to assist each and every one of you in finding those choices. Of course, I strongly believe that "my way" is the continually evolving answer as it is for me. I also accept it might not be for you, the visitor.

I will teach you both individually if you are so inclined and as visitors here about communication, self direction, healing and the interaction of soul/spirit, mind and body as they are intertwined on this plane. I invite you to sign the guest book, post on the message board, check out what others are offering, by clicking on both on the homepage icons and on the links page, email me with comments and suggestions. However, you've seen all that and more elsewhere on this site.

My particular vent is you are to be in charge of your own life and how you react to what happens as well as your role in being in that particular position at that point in time. You already know this information presented here on some level. This website really invites you to awaken this in you. My skills, while varied, have had a history of being proven and reproven, challenged and then proven again time and time again by many, many people. Study, learn, grow and heal. That, in essence, is what both this site and life generally is about. This is an ever evolving site and as information becomes available, it will be added.

I look forward to future interchanges and may we all be better for the meeting and at the time of parting grieve productively and rejoice in the experience(s) that have taken place.

Thank you for your continued time and attention.

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