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Legacy
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Beliefnet Staff
There are some people who get into your bone marrow and decades later, remain with you. When I met Rich Foster along with his wife Gina at Glassboro State College in the late 1970’s, I was at Together, Inc. which was a counseling center where many of my friends worked. A motley crew of creative souls,…
Touching Souls
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
“Love is touching souls. Surely you touched mine. ‘Cause part of you pours out of me. In these lines from time to time. Oh, you’re in my blood like holy wine…” -Joni Mitchell (A Case of You) I just returned from a memorial service for a woman I didn’t know well. I…
The Day My Life Changed
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Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
It is 7:44 a.m. on December 21, 2013. Fifteen years ago at this moment, I was in the midst of a maelstrom of emotion that threatened to suck me down into its swirling vortex. Sitting in the MRICU (Medical Respiratory Intensive Care Unit) of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, I was waiting for the…
Death and the Totality of the Human Experience
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Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. ~Rossiter Worthington Raymond Death is such a strange and multi-faceted experience. Yesterday, I witnessed my sister Jan and her family as they said goodbye to her husband, and their…
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