Comments on: Where do we go from here? http://sonofwhale.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/where-do-we-go-from-here/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:49:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Blogging to Help Deal With Loss | dads@dadz.com http://sonofwhale.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/where-do-we-go-from-here/#comment-688 Blogging to Help Deal With Loss | dads@dadz.com Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:35:55 +0000 http://sonofwhale.wordpress.com/?p=110#comment-688 [...] upon that prompted me to write about this. It’s a site created to honor “Whale” Mark Presley Sr. This gentleman passed away on July 26th this year. Seems like the kind of guy we’d all want [...] [...] upon that prompted me to write about this. It’s a site created to honor “Whale” Mark Presley Sr. This gentleman passed away on July 26th this year. Seems like the kind of guy we’d all want [...]

]]> By: Juliet Kauffman http://sonofwhale.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/where-do-we-go-from-here/#comment-684 Juliet Kauffman Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:21:36 +0000 http://sonofwhale.wordpress.com/?p=110#comment-684 Dear Mark and all, It is eerie to see your father with baby Eli, it could be your grandfather with any of you! That amazing bald pate (like the poem)! Only a few of you had your grandfather's touch before his premature departure (he was not even 60), but so many of your own were impacted directly by your father. What a wonderful blessing. This impersonal computer has the joyous capacity of enlarging community and thereby providing support more easily typed than phoned or hugged. There is nothing like the finality of life to offer a reminder that now is the best time to say what is really true, what really matters! Thankfully your father gave you the great gift of showing how truly easy that is - to open your heart, to risk vulnerability, to not delay. Your thoughtful posts (as well as your sisters' and brother's) provide healing that helps you all move forward. Lovingly, Dear Mark and all,

It is eerie to see your father with baby Eli, it could be your grandfather with any of you! That amazing bald pate (like the poem)! Only a few of you had your grandfather’s touch before his premature departure (he was not even 60), but so many of your own were impacted directly by your father. What a wonderful blessing.

This impersonal computer has the joyous capacity of enlarging community and thereby providing support more easily typed than phoned or hugged.

There is nothing like the finality of life to offer a reminder that now is the best time to say what is really true, what really matters! Thankfully your father gave you the great gift of showing how truly easy that is – to open your heart, to risk vulnerability, to not delay.

Your thoughtful posts (as well as your sisters’ and brother’s) provide healing that helps you all move forward.

Lovingly,

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