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ANOTHER ROOM

AN ARTFUL ANTHOLOGY OF CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS ON
DEATH, DYING AND THE UNBROKEN CONTINUITY OF LIFE

“Death is nothing at all. I have merely slipped away into another room." - Anonymous

Images by John Burke: Into Darkness, The Music Lover, Unto Light

From Grief

(written 1988/1989) Sixteen years is not a long time to know someone, especially when you start at a very young age, when you are...

PROSE

Sun & Moon

Being with my husband the last week of his life, sharing the intimacy of making passage, I felt this amazing energy of pure love. There...

ART

Skylight Vision

“Skylight Wisdom,” by Aline Fourier, pen & ink and watercolor on paper In January, 1978, my son Ari was six years old. I found him lost...

ART

The Music Lover

“The Music Lover, a colorful acrylic gouache painting by John G. Burke is dedicated to the artist’s brother, William Burke, who died of...

ART

Passage

ART

A Doorway

“Death is nothing at all. I have merely slipped away into another room. Whatever we were to each other, we still are. Call me by my old...

ART

An Ode to Dying

My Mother, how small you are becoming in your earthly color, as earth recedes, spirit is rising. Sadness and joy fill my eyes as I pray...

POETRY

Dear Creative Souls,

I invite you to the dance, the dance that goes on forever. Art in all its expressions has always been the way of talking with our hearts about what is truly real. We are not the final term of our being. I am gathering your submissions of ART, MUSIC, POETRY, PROSE, DREAMS, SCULPTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY that speaks intimately to, creatively expresses and supports our acceptance of loss, grieving and connection around death, dying and the unbroken continuity of life. Death is not an end but merely a doorway into Another Room.

I dedicate this heART blog to three brave souls who battled cancer, Richard, Elaine and Dennis. They were my inspiration for the vision of Another Room.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, man would see everything as it is, infinite.” - William Blake

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