by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 5, 2020 | Acceptance of death, pandemic
After a few hopeless starts for this blog post, I’m leaving it at this: Make friends with “I don’t know.” Like good, good friends. BFFs. Throw a Welcome Party for uncertainty. And try to take in, deep in your bones, that all of this stuff in our lives is a...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 14, 2018 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Personalized funeral
This article by Erica Buist from The Guardian says so well what I Want a Fun Funeral is so much about. I’m not sure I ever articulated this point even to myself, but boy does it get to the heart of the matter: “We don’t want to trivialise the loss, but why not...
by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 22, 2018 | Acceptance of death
“It’s been a whirlwind of activity getting ready for funeral on Friday. You’re never really prepared even when you know it’s coming.” I got this in an email from a friend the other day. It was an older family member… not tragic in any way, and not even...
by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 7, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Loss
Time for another True Confession. And this one will seem so loony that I can only laugh while I tremble to admit it. Loony because it’s so dang obvious. So seemingly innocuous. Death is normal. Yup, that’s a statement I often find impossible to spit...