A Place of Reflections

The Aviators Club  on Twitter will fly two quarterly tribute (memorial) missions on January 19, 2013  to honor pets and anipals who have departed O ver T he R ainbow B ridge ( OTRB)   in the past three months.  Image Credit The Pink and Green Puppy The Aviators Club  team members fly and call out the names of departed pets in tribute to their lives and their families.  There is no fee or charge for having your departed pet acknowledged in tribute. It is open for all species of critters that you loved and have now departed.  The quarterly tribute (memorial) missions are simply an act of love. If you would like your departed pet called out in tribute during these flights please send their name and/or a brief description (animal type, age, etc.) and feel free to contact any one of these folks : The Aviators Club Mouche Cat @clingycat  (Pacific Team Mission Leader ~ Austr...

Photo Credit: Adobe Photo Shop Art Tutorial   Being able to express your grief ~  The Challenge of Grief at Holiday Time ~ I    was based around being able to 'talk' or 'share' about departed loved ones to help a person process their grief, their loss, their impact. Expression is vital ~ especially with young children. A few years back I saw this film clip of a young widow being interviewed. She had three small children. I think her husband had been killed in the war. At Christmas time, she asked her children if they'd would like to draw a message to Heaven for their daddy. She had a particular wall she would put the Christmas tree at, around that tree, placed on that wall would be her childrens' drawings ~ EXPRESSIONS for their daddy, Jesus Christ, Heaven.  They were in their third Christmas season of doing this. She said she was saving and preserving their messages, they were precious to her and if at some point when the ch...

Photo Credit  Adobe Photoshop Art Tutorial  As a little girl, my maternal grandfather had a heart attack on Thanksgiving (we weren't there). He died on December 3rd. Four days after Christmas the same year (December 29th), my daddy died in an industrial accident. I briefly spoke about first being widowed young with a child to raise in  The Little Prayer Book That Could and Did . The massive and fatal heart attack that came upon him happened in December, (right after Christmas and before New Years). That particular blog post mainly focused on my late-in-life marriage, the loss of that husband who was diagnosed with terminal cancer one mid-November and died mid-January two months later and my grief.  I am not an expert in dealing with grief. I am quite an expert at having personally experienced the exquisite excruciating pain of grief.  Today, I want to focus on grief, children and...

WHO:   The Aviators Club  on twitter WHAT and WHY:  will be flying it's quarterly tribute (memorial) mission to honor pets and anipals both known and unknown who've have gone OTRB   <---- O ver T he R ainbow B ridge in the past three months. WHEN:   It is scheduled for Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 1:00 PM EST ~ (which is 12 NOON Wisconsin time). HOW:   If you would like the name of your departed pet called out in tribute during this flight please feel free to contact any one of these folks: The Aviators Club @TheAviatorsClub   Dear Clyde @DearClyde Shelly @Shelly338  <----  Shelly is the team leader for this mission Twitelien @Twitelien * * * Australia and New Zealand Quarterly Tribute Mission Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 7:00 PM AEST (Brisbane Time) Mouche Cat @clingycat   is the team leader for the Australia and New Zealand mission * * * Recent Aviators  Taz, Daisy and Budd...

Blackie was my first dog.  Actually he was a 'family dog'.  I rather suspect he was initially chosen to give my two older brothers some responsibility in caring for something of their own and to act as a 'calming' influence to their own exuberant personalities. As my mama also had a brand new baby boy to care for, realistically Blackie became my mostly full time companion during my waking hours and my daytime babysitter. Blackie was my first dog. THE ESCAPE ARTIST ~ Family legends and lore say I made my first escape from my baby crib at age 9 months and made it several rooms away before I was discovered. This was pre-Blackie in our lives. With Blackie, another family legend says I was found a quarter of a mile down a fairly busy roadway making mud pies just off the shoulder of the road with Blackie lying on the shoulder of the road (facing me) curled (curved) like the top half of a full moon as his attempt to protec...

Twitter  blessings ----> THE AVIATORS  Wednesday, July 11, 2012 the biggest twitter blessing of the week came while I was helping  Taz , Daisy and Buddy @3DogsWhite  with their twitter account. They had received a tweet from  Lolly   @LollyMadonna   about a 'memorial flight' scheduled for 5:00 PM Eastern Time. I didn't understand what that was about.  Me and the doggies stumbled upon something beautiful. Right then it was 4:00 PM Wisconsin time which is 5:00 PM Eastern time. We found THE AVIATORS   (their twitter hashtag #theaviators).   We began to see tweets and retweets happening about a flight mission, a memorial flight for all departed pets and animals who went OTRB <---   Over The Rainbow Bridge and GTRB <---- Gone To Rainbow Bridge   ~  For those of you who do not know what the concept of The Rainbow Bridge is, here is the story. People who love their pets and anim...

Subtitled: Are You Grieving and Hurting Right Now and Think You Might Be Crazy? Introduction: "Pfwheww"! ~ This is a hard one. I have this story I want to share.  I have been in writer's avoidance of doing so because to put it to words means I have to re-visit some deeply personal and painful places in my psyche and mind and share them. Even though I feel healed and wholeness now, it is very difficult to 'look back on the sad days' so to say.  My main social media is twitter and several people have recently come under my observation at having lost to death very meaningful people in their lives this past three months. Some are folks who don't follow me and I don't follow them, I just heard about what happened through the 'twittervine'. So here I am attempting to reach beyond myself with the hope, this little blog post will reach out, touch and positively impact one person who may be feeling empty, completely alone, perhaps in question of th...