This Post is Not About Grief

It’s really not. This post is about driving south on I-5, from Bellingham, WA, toward my home in Seattle. It’s raining, and I’m crying. 
But I’m not crying because my dad died in December, December 16th to be exact, after a 26-month dogfight with a particularly nasty cancer. 
I’m crying because for five nights, I have been staying in an itty-bitty Airbnb. By myself. Writing. And now I must go home.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/03/03/this-post-is-not-about-grief/

#Health #Inspirations #Lamentations #Writinglife #Grief

This Post is Not About Grief

It’s really not. This post is about driving south on I-5, from Bellingham, WA, toward my home in Seattle. It’s raining, and I’m crying.  But I’m not crying because my dad died in December, De…

Writer Unboxed
Becoming a New Writer in the New Year

Just a few days into January, you may already be tired of the idea of resolutions. There’s nothing special about January, really, if resolving’s what you want to do: you can vow to chan…

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Controversial: Jeremiah says it's "good for a man to bear the yoke." How can hardship be good? Learn how God turns your heavy burden into a light, custom-made blessing.
​Full study: https://downiefamily.wixsite.com/wherebreadisfound/post/while-we-wait-the-strength-to-wait
#Lamentations #YokeOfSuffering #Faith

Many think #Jeremiah wrote #Lamentations; it is possible, but the work has no author attested. He is intimately acquainted with the destruction of Jerusalem.

The first chapter of Lamentations is an acrostic, with each verse beginning with a successive letter in the Hebrew alphabet.

Ghoultunnel: Nebulith (review)

What if a ritual goes wrong? Or rather: What if the timing of a huge ritual goes wrong, and misses the crucial moment for its culmination by a minute or two? This question drove one Alex Thompson, resident of the isle of Okinawa, to explore the fate of its twin island, Awa Nikko, which does […]

https://ghoultunnel.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/nebulith-review/

Nebulith (review)

What if a ritual goes wrong? Or rather: What if the timing of a huge ritual goes wrong, and misses the crucial moment for its culmination by a minute or two? This question drove one Alex Thompson, …

Ghoultunnel
Your Flight Will Be Delayed: Lessons in Publishing Patience

Last week, after submitting my second book to my editor, I had the opportunity to travel to Lake Tahoe with a group of gal pals. We enjoyed sunny days, plenty of laughter, and a variety of outdoor …

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In commemoration of #Palestrina's 500th anniversary (c1525-1594)
"The #Lamentations of Jeremiah"
Danielle Reutter-Harrah
with the Voice of the #Viol consort (a program of Voices of Music):
Elisabeth Reed dir
Wendy Gillespie, Malachai Komanoff Bandy, Farley Pearce & William Skeen, Elizabethan viols.

Palestrina's Lamentations were a perennial favorite at the #SistineChapel, The setting combines clarity of text, perfect counterpoint and subtly-shifting harmonies.
https://youtu.be/2AGk3ABb-oY (4:55)

Feeling overwhelmed by loss or despair? 📖 Lamentations 3 dives deep into raw grief over Jerusalem’s fall, yet finds hope in God’s unending love.

https://assemblybethesda.com/lamentations-grieving-a-fallen-city-and-a-broken-covenant/

#Lamentations #FaithInLoss #HopeInDespair

Blank Pages and Blinking Cursors: Why Are Openings So Hard?

Imagine that you are driving when a freak rainstorm hits five miles from home.
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/07/28/blank-pages-and-blinking-cursors-why-are-openings-so-hard/

#Lamentations #REALWORLD #Writinglife #beginnings #firstpages
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