Are you a Prisoner of Your Mind?
February 5, 2008 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Grief
Franklin Roosevelt once said
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
As widows or widowers, we can blame fate….we can be angry at what the world has thrown at us in terms of the grieving process, we can be angry about the death of a loved one. If we stay a prisoner to fate, that stops us from moving on and coping with the loneliness and depression. So how can we break free from being a prisoner of our mind?
Break the chain of thinking that we have been hard done by…death happens, in fact death …read more
Eleven Learnings of 9/11
September 11, 2007 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Building Memorials
Today is a day that will stay in our memory forever. Here are my thoughts
E= Each day we live we have no way of knowing our own fate, the fate of people we love. Live and love for the moment.
L= Love is eternal, death happens in a second, but the love does not die, it lives through the grief.
E= Events can bring people together, in the world’s grief there were wonderful sights of people reaching out to others, looking out for others, supporting, understanding…..let’s learn that it doesn’t need an horrific event to live as generous human beings, we …read more






