Grief is a solitary road. Even if we are fortunate enough to have people alongside us during the journey, (as I have been), no one can really travel all the way with us. Our pain and our path are as individual as the relationship we share with the person we’ve lost. When my father died suddenly back in September of 2013, I began doing what I always do: I started writing. I did it to somehow make sense of my own grief, and to keep moving through the place I now call The Grief Valley. These seven short chapters, (the first one written just three days after his passing) are some of the most personal things I've ever shared. They're also some of the writings I'm most proud of. I've collected them here, in the hopes that they will be an encouragement and source of comfort for those experiencing loss of someone they love dearly, though I know each path will be a completely different one. This work represents a real-time processing of my first year without my Dad. It’s not a “how-to” book by any means, but maybe in my story, you’ll find something that you yourself can own; something to make your personal road through the Grief Valley a little more bearable. Be encouraged. Keep walking.

A Year In The Grief Valley: 365 Days Of Love And Loss

John Pavlovitz

Parsons Porch Books

As a young man growing up in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, having no conscious knowledge of a Southern Blues Band, “The Allman Brothers Band”, a Capricorn Records act managed by the president of the company, Phil Walden, from Macon, Georgia, I was about to embark on a journey through time and people I otherwise never would have met leaving me with many fond memories and thanks for having lived a life in that era place and time. This is my story!      My first recollection of Duane Allman came too late to appreciate his musical career while he was still alive, it took his untimely death (October 29th, 1971). Twiggs Lyndon was Duane Allman’s most devoted advocate, also the first Road Manager of the Allman Brothers Band.

Remembering Twiggs Lyndon

Ron Cosentino

This is a book of reflections on wandering. It could be said that if you stick to a trail you are less likely to wander, but even on a trail one can happily wander. The only trails I knew about growing up were the ones worn deep by the dairy cows sauntering across the pasture. In spite of having acres of broad pastures to meander across, cows inevitably take the same singular path leading them to and from the dairy barn. In fact, if a cow ever wandered off the beaten path, so to speak, it most always meant something was wrong. This collection of writings is a simple attempt to share my own marks and experiences along the way as well as an invitation to meander alongside my own thoughts, musings, and reflections. Like trails, some of the pieces will take you places with a specific destination or point. Others are winding walkabouts where I am just thinking out loud to no one in particular. The stories themselves are not connected, other than the threads of grace weaving throughout. And while they are organized along four main sections, they can be read in any order the reader likes, or in no particular order at all. I hope you enjoy Wanderings, and I hope you share your stories of faith, doubt, and pilgrimage on this good earth. ___________ Greg DeLoach grew up right in the heart of rural Georgia on a dairy farm outside the small town of Eatonton. DeLoach has earned a Doctor of Ministry in Old Testament Theology from Columbia Theological Seminary and has served several congregations throughout Georgia, including pastorates in Mansfield, Chickamauga, Marietta and Augusta. Currently he is a Development Officer for Mercer University and is the Teaching Pastor of First Baptist Church of Monroe. His love of the outdoors began at an early age walking the pastures and woods of the dairy farm, and looks for any chance he can find to pitch a tent in the Smoky Mountains and find a new trail to hike.

Wanderings

Greg Deloach

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A Year In The Grief Valley: 365 Days Of Love And Loss

Remembering Twiggs Lyndon

Wanderings