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85Greetings From The Afterlife: Dreams And Signs
Make no mistake about it, from virtually the moment they die, they will try to come back and reach you.
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73The Immeasurable Grief Of Siblings
A sibling is not only a friend and a confidant, siblings are the mirrors to our own mortality. Children shouldn't die. Even children know this. The night can last forever for a child grieving his, or her, brother or sister.
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76The 27 Club: An American Mythology
Why is the age of 27 so fraught with musical tragedy? Are these all coincidences? Are there forces unseen at work in the universe around certain people? Why does this even matter, what is it's relevence, this cult of the 27 Club?
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75After Death: Communication From Behind The Veil?
The stories of visitation experiences with those who have passed on are doorways, passageways into another understanding of reality.
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81Musicians And The Link To Mental Illness?
“We musicians seem to be willing to self destruct in order to achieve our goals. We are willing to suffer any obstacle in order to recreate the great masterworks of music with passion."
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75Langston Hughes: An American Son
Tomorrow, I'll be at the table when company comes. Nobody'll dare say to me,"Eat in the kitchen,"then. Besides,They'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed--I, too, am America.
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74Anne Sexton: Crucial Pieces
Poetry does not exist merely for the springtime, rainbows, or the birth of new life... all of that is poetry too and there must be roses amongst the thorns. Poetry exists and continues more so because of the sorrow, the madness, the despairing of the soul. This is what Anne Sexton made the literary and mainstream society of her day remember. And she would have them remember it today.
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70Children: Near Death Experiences
In 1997, a poll by U.S. News & World Report revealed that in the United States, 15 million people had had a near death experience. That translates to one-third of those whom nearly die, or who are pronounced clinically dead but are later revived. Melvin Morse, in his book Closer to the Light, puts the figure of children having had a near death experience at 70%. That means, under the same circumstances, children are twice as likely as adults to experience a near-death episode.
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75Jack White: Chasing Legend
There are as many detractors as there are champions of Jack White. This however is certain: when the greatest rock guitarists of all time look at you and nod, call you by name and sit down with you to play, you know you have a Hell Hound on your trail. Or perhaps it is White, who has been chasing the Hound.
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70Izumi Shikibu: Preeminent Mistress Of The Heian
Izumi Shikibu's poetry is timeless in love, pain, loneliness, grief, and the knowledge of impermanence.
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