I wanted to share an idea of what we can do with pictures of our loved ones.  Nancy Gershman, a digital artist, creates meaningful portraits from photos, memories and stories that we think about every day. Here is a sample of her work:

DREAMSCAPE PHOTOMONTAGE: Myrtle pays homage to the memory of her twin and keeps a promise to her sister.…

you cannot simply make someone go away that you have been with for so many years.It makes you wonder why things happend the way they do . I have flashbacks would I say horrible,horrible in the sense that Iam expecting her to come through the door and scold me for the mess I have created. I still loved her even if she made it difficult at times.

So now I feel like Iam inside a tornado thats whirling around at 300 mph. I know I shouldn,t say this but since she has been gone I have…

I feel frozen in place. Life is going 

today I spent the whole day inside my house.When she was alive I don,t think I ever did that.I mean I could have straighten up the garage but I never did,I went on a eating binge,not every single minute.Slept most of the day.I can imagine she slept most of the time she was home,depression? I told my therapist I was going to go the gym,I went once since I promiosed him this.The worst thing of the whole week is when I have to go work at 12 minight for 2 days.In the morning I have to endure my…

Iam driven to comment on grief today. No one can imagine what sorrow and pain is going on with the loss of there loved one,a fact that I somehow fail to see. It seems as I suspected the world is over all insentative except when it comes to there own world .Which is basically true. So maby some emotions were triggered in me.So anyway I sat in my house all day today.

Hello -- I'm so glad this site is here. I spoke to an old family friend who is encouraging me to go down and see my mom out of state and ignore my mom's wishes. My mom really made it clear to me she does not want me to come down, and I want to respect her wishes. I talk to her once a week on the phone, per her request, and ask her each time if she has changed her mind about me going down to see her; she has not. The hospice people also told me I should probably not go down to see her. I just…

i need to vent. For those of us who have lost children, husbands etc. this is to the living.  I am still grieving my losses. You didn't go through this ordeal. I know its almost three since the first one and a little over a year since the second one. I did not need the man in my life to have been diagnosed with cancer. that came a week after the funeral  than pretend nothing happened we are supposed to go back to our jobs and suck it up.  the man in my life left last week I think that I am…

Your spouse dies your life screeches to a halt,I told my therapist I would have preferred to die with her .Whats the use.Anyway not happening,Iam not suicidal don,t even drink that much.Iam getting there ,I have to remind myself slow going.One cann,t change 35 yrs of life with the same person regardless of there personal life together.I think the bond together is so strong it remains with you.I think consciously the bond may get weaker but I believe will never go away.Like many of us I feel…

how do i get over my fear of them seting in side 1 makes me feal

Death has become like just another every day thing to me.  My gran has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer.  She is 82 and decided not to receive treatment.  Doctors don't think she will live to see next year.  In 2009 my other gran died, in 2010 my dad died, and in 2011 my mom died.  I have become "numb" at the idea of death.  It is part of life and one day I will go too.  I am 26 and only having a younger sister left as my close family, I am getting paranoid that something will happen…

I keep reading grief support sites intro . I suppose that what you do join a grief support group. I didn,t realize what a screwed up life I had untile my wife died.Hows that possible I mean she would have recovered got out of the hosp and we would have been back in the same"bipolar life" Me with my compulsions. So she died umm now the grief is really setting in.Even with welbutin as a chaser.OMG! 30 minutes and my relief shows up. Iam off the next shift.Have to go for a medical procedure.…

So it was a horrible september day that I got the worst call. I was just enjoying myself days earlier happy because I was headed on vacation to Jamaica. My smile was huge and I felt so proud knowing that I'm going places in life. Suddenly my happy smile changed when I got the call saying that your father has been shot. At first I thought that I was dreamsing, I felt that I was in a nightmare, and all I wanted was to be out of it. It took me a while to just pull myself together; so I had to…

Cures for Cancer

So Many Times I Think of You

The scent of Orient inspired perfume lingers in a mall

A reggae tune that reminds me of dancing in the Village

Potato and egg breakfast tacos which you taught to me make

So many times, I think of you.

A recommendation on my LinkedIn site

Your CV still on my hard drive

Memories of our last email exchange on being your own boss

So many times, I think of you

My thoughts of you, once…

I have had three sudden and tragic deaths. My mother answered her door to help a stranger. that stranger pulled out a knife and stabbed her to death.  her face was slashed. she was found by her boss when she didn't show up for work.that was april 11,1989.  20 years later they finally put him away for 65 years. we were happy and releived we could put mom to rest. November 22, 2009 I lost my oldest son.he was 32 and on a bicycle was hit by a big pick up.my heart is in a million peices. I think…

i cant beleve it as i woz warking thru the grave yard checking on the family graves and making sure i add more water to the floreers i cudnt beleve thata lot of the leaves are falling off the trees all ready and its not even septeber yet it still augist and sum of the leaves on the ground are brown or red i dont no if its got any thng to with the ozone layer geting biger i try to use ozone frendly thngs to protect the envirmint…

We lived in our own little worlds. It went very fast when she went into St Davids South Austin Hospital the final time,as the wonderful doctors and nurses(don,t forgot the nurses) tore her body apart.(not literally ) You  know, heart valve repalcement,pacemaker oh gee don,t forgot shes on dialysis and won,t even have a chance of surviving. As me and her "gieving son and his wife stood around and watchd her life fade away.

Now if she survived she would have still given me a piece of…

hard to write anything without launching into the real truth. One never sees how realtionships really were. Regardless the living breathing person who has been by your side for 35 yrs dies. Dead passed away. I would launch into blame, anger (guilt) ?? umm.Ignorance ,being blind sided by emotional and pyschological problems . Living one day to the next ,unable to bring oneself to end a realtionship on…

I lost my youngest sister to brain cancer on July 8. I managed to stay strong for her and her young daughters while helping to care for her at hospice at home. But now my heart is breaking with such sadness and sense of loss. She was only 44 and because of our age difference, I've always thought of her as my baby. I'm having trouble sleeping and when I do manage to sleep I wake up crying knowing that it was not a nightmare. She is gone. I love her so much and miss her terribly. It was so…