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Valhalla Over Connacht

Sandra Shea June 26, 2015 2 Comments

Sandra Shea

About the artist:

Sandra Shea is an associate professor at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. “As a colon and skin cancer survivor, I know WAY too much about how health care works from the inside! Ireland holds a special place in my heart, as my father’s family ‘s homeland, as a place where I spent my junior year of college, and a place to which I have returned whenever possible. My most recent trip, in 2013, was the first trip with a digital camera and an iPad, as evidenced by an average

Heaven and Earth

Alicia Demetropolis May 29, 2015 2 Comments

Alicia Demetropolis

About the artist:

Alicia Jean Demetropolis is an orthopedic exercise specialist and healthcare assistant and is certified in providing spiritual care to people at the end of life. She is a published author of fiction and nonfiction and writes and publishes a quarterly newsletter for the Olympic Peninsula. Called Death Over Coffee, it is meant to encourage “an open, fearless and healthy discussion on the topic of death and dying.” This is her first published photograph. “It is dedicated to Hank, a longtime client whom I just lost a few nights ago. Although

Casting Out Demons

Jef Gamblée December 26, 2014 14 Comments

Jef Gamblee

As I stand beside the bed in Mr. Jerome’s living room, his pit bull puppy sniffs the body bag lying on a stretcher nearby. His cat curls up on the bedside shelf.

“That dog gonna be a problem?” asks Jude, one of the crematory guys.

“She might get underfoot,” says the neighbor, whose name I can’t remember. “But she’s a lover, not a fighter.”

Jude and Chuck are here to pick up Mr. Jerome, who died of prostate cancer today. His body lies on the bed–the wasted husk of a once lively, athletic man who had taught history in a New Jersey middle school.

I’m a hospice chaplain; Mr. Jerome was my client. I’d known him for about six

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Valhalla Over Connacht

Heaven and Earth

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Valhalla Over Connacht

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