The following announcement is for Children's Memorial Day and offers a look at how a simple poem like "Mrs. Duck and The Woman" can be transformed into a full figured Project with a healing mission when the priciples of Poetry Therapy are applied to our writing works.
Light a Candle to Remember
Children’s Memorial Day
Second Sunday of Every December
Held at 7p.m. in your time zone
Children's Memorial Day happens every year on the second Sunday of December and is observed internationally. Families around the world light candles at 7 p.m. in their corresponding time zones. This remembrance ceremony provides the world with lit candles for an entire 24 hour period in order to honor the children we have lost, the children who lived and died, and who, even in death, continue to matter.
This year (and every year) we at KotaPress and SeattleM.I.S.S. work to raise local, national, and international awareness of Children’s Memorial Day this December. The death of a child can be a very difficult subject to raise with family members. People are often afraid they will upset the parents by reminding them of their lost child or by saying the "wrong" thing. Yet, because my husband and I have lost a son to stillbirth, I know from our own experience that we think of our child every single day. Having a friend or family member mention our son does not upset us, but rather affirms our son's life and the impact he had on the people around us. But we do know that it can be difficult to find the right words or to find an appropriate way to honor the memory of that child. And days like Children's Memorial Day provide us all with the chance to honor the lives and deaths of these children in a caring way.
For this year's Children's Memorial Day, KotaPress offers an expansion of the Mrs. Duck Project by providing two new free formats of the grief support book Mrs. Duck and the Woman. In the Loss Journal at http://www.KotaPress.com/frameLoss.htm under the Mrs. Duck Project section, there is now a free animated/audio Flash version of the book as narrated by Jojo Jensen (author of Dirt Farmer Wisdom). You will also find a free html version of the book there, too. This outreach
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