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The Power of Music and Memories in Healing from Grief – Episode 122

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Listen to my Podcast, Journey from Grief to Healing, Episode 122 on your favorite podcasting app or click here for Episode 122 

ourney from Grief to Healing Podcast – Episode 122: Embracing Memories and Melancholy

In this heartfelt episode, I find solace at a Starbucks, sipping on a grande iced green tea while reflecting on the South Texas heat and the parallel journey of enduring grief. Join me as I share personal anecdotes from my garden and draw parallels between mosquito bites and the gradual subsiding of grief.

Discover the power of music in healing, as I delve into the poignant lyrics of Jamey Johnson’s song “What a View,” and how it resonates with my own cherished memories. This episode is a tribute to those we love and the lasting impact they have on our lives.

Listen in as I explore the bittersweet blend of joy and melancholy that memories bring, and find out why smiles and gratitude are our best defenses against the pangs of grief. Let’s journey together from grief to healing, one memory at a time.

Keywords:

  • Grief Healing
  • Coping with Loss
  • Emotional Reflection
  • Jamey Johnson Music
  • Cherished Memories
  • Personal Growth
  • Healing Journey

Hashtags: #GriefJourney #HealingFromLoss #MemoriesAndMelancholy #MusicTherapy #EmotionalHealing #JameyJohnson #PodcastEpisode #PersonalReflection #SouthTexasLiving #GratitudeAndJoy

Today’s Quote: Kindness Brightens Our Day

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Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Today’s Inspiring Photo: Grow Your Own Garden: It’s Your Life

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Peace – A Poem by George Herbert

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Peace by George Herbert

Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave,
Let me once know.
I sought thee in a secret cave,
And ask’d, if Peace were there,
A hollow wind did seem to answer, No:
Go seek elsewhere.

I did; and going did a rainbow note:
Surely, thought I,
This is the lace of Peace’s coat:
I will search out the matter.
But while I looked the clouds immediately
Did break and scatter.

Then went I to a garden and did spy
A gallant flower,
The crown-imperial: Sure, said I,
Peace at the root must dwell.
But when I digged, I saw a worm devour
What showed so well.

At length I met a rev’rend good old man;
Whom when for Peace

I did demand, he thus began:
There was a Prince of old
At Salem dwelt, who lived with good increase
Of flock and fold.

He sweetly lived; yet sweetness did not save
His life from foes.
But after death out of his grave
There sprang twelve stalks of wheat;
Which many wond’ring at, got some of those
To plant and set.

It prospered strangely, and did soon disperse
Through all the earth:
For they that taste it do rehearse
That virtue lies therein;
A secret virtue, bringing peace and mirth
By flight of sin.

Take of this grain, which in my garden grows,
And grows for you;
Make bread of it: and that repose
And peace, which ev’ry where
With so much earnestness you do pursue,
Is only there.

“My Garden” A Poem by Thomas Edward Brown

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My Garden 

Thomas Edward Brown

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Ferned grot–
The veriest school
Of peace; and yet the fool
Contends that God is not–
Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool?
Nay, but I have a sign;
‘Tis very sure God walks in mine.

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Thinking Out Loud ~ Making Good Choices

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What Seeds Are You Sowing?

James Allen in his book, “As a Man Thinketh, says, “MAN’S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.” P. 14

As a Man Thinketh is available online at gutenberg.org under the Harvard Classics.

NOTE: When the technological revolution began there was a saying, “garbage in, garbage out.” It works the same way with us. It works with the foods we eat. It works with the books we read. It works with the conversations we have with others. Garbage in, garbage out. Turning the phrase around, good things in, good things out. It seems such a simple formula to follow if we want to feel good, contribute in a good way to society, and be successful in our endeavors. Put good things in and good things will come out.

Poem for Today ~ Lord, I Ask a Garden . . .

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Lord, I Ask a Garden . . .

Alfonso Guillén Zelaya 

Lord, I ask a garden in a quiet spot
where there may be a brook with a good flow,
an humble little house covered with bell-flowers,
and a wife and a son who shall resemble Thee.

I should wish to live many years, free from hates,
and make my verses, as the rivers
that moisten the earth, fresh and pure.
Lord, give me a path with trees and birds.

I wish that you would never take my mother,
for I should wish to tend to her as a child
and put her to sleep with kisses, when somewhat old
she may need the sun.

I wish to sleep well, to have a few books,
an affectionate dog that will spring upon my knees,
a flock of goats, all things rustic,
and to live off the soil tilled by my own hand.

To go into the field and flourish with it;
to seat myself at evening under the rustic eaves,
to drink in the fresh mountain perfumed air
and speak to my little one of humble things.

At night to relate him some simple tale,
teach him to laugh with the laughter of water
and put him to sleep thinking that he may later on
keep that freshness of the moist grass.

And afterward, the next day, rise with dawn
admiring life, bathe in the brook,
milk my goats in the happiness of the garden
and add a strophe to the poem of the world.

 

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Today’s Inspiration ~ Take Care of Your Garden

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“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Today’s Smile

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Joe: “I just finished reading a novel about a guy who had a small garden.”

Pete: “How was it.”

Joe: “It didn’t have much of a plot.”

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