Understanding Life
You and I are constantly asking what life is all about. Try to understand it. Then live like we know that it is and that we are misunderstood continually even when it comes to love. Many have never felt it...
Self-love
Did you forget you are worthy of being love? I did for a long, long time. Because I forgot it is not wrong or selfish or vain to love myself too. Why was I thought to believe I could give...
TLG’s Creation
PLANTING MY ROSE It is With a deep bow of love and gratitude for my stillborn son, Elijah Iam Godfrey, that The Loving Garden was created. His journey into this world was not meant to be and his diagnosis of...
LOVE BLOOMS on Valentine’s Day!
The Gates to the Loving Garden are now open! St. Croix, USVI, Feb 14, 2021: The seed of a Love Legacy idea planted almost 10 years ago to help others, all in the name of love, finally comes to life....
I Will Never Forget
This moment, staying in a tent on top of a mountain in Malibu amongst the ashes from my friend’s property burnt to the ground from the wildfires in California. I was up there with her dragging all the paperwork of...
Love Starts With Our Truth
The truth that we loved The truth we feel loss The truth that we grieve And honor those feelings The truth is that we have permission And are safe To love And safe To grief. The deeper the love, the...
Moving On
(Written to my son Elijah – August 2011 – 6 months pregnant) I took a break over the weekend. I allowed myself not to think about you. What is to come, the pages of to-do’s needing doing, the whirlwind of...
The Announcement of Elijah’s Truth and Impending Passing
(Written in Summer 2011 – a few months before Elijah passed & was born.) It is with a heavy and humbling heart that I write and share with you the following. In April of this year, I was surprised and...
Nobody Is Paying Attention
I was called into the clinic room for the test by a nurse who was pregnant. I would say 7 mo- carrying well and healthy. She was non-descript, nice enough. And she proceeded to insert the needle for the TB...
Elijah Was Turning 1.
I had so much anxiety about Elijah’s 1 year an. I started to regress in grief about a month before. I know it has to do with getting through survival mode and all the changes. All the responsibilities had kept...