Tag Archives: grief

Review: H Is for Hawk

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Gabriella West

I wanted to do a belated review of a memoir I bought last summer and finished late last year, Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk (Grove, currently $4.96 on Kindle). Hard to write a short review of this gorgeous book. … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged England, grief, hawks, healing, Helen Macdonald, memoir, naturalist, nature, outsiders, power, T.H. White, wildness | Leave a comment

“It’s OK for our hearts to be broken over the world. What else is a heart for?” ~ Joanna Macy

Posted on August 4, 2019 by Gabriella West | Leave a comment

A Hell of a Year

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Gabriella West

2016 has been a hell of a year. It feels too soon to do a retrospective, but it’s been the kind of year where I uploaded a picture of a Facebook friend’s beautiful young dog running through some snowy woods … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Personal | Tagged 2016, Biden, cancer, cycle, death, distance, election, Electoral College, Facebook, Ghost Ship, grief, hope, Nixon, oligarchy, pain, Russia, sanity, Trump, Watergate | 2 Comments

About last night…

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Gabriella West

Wow. A mixture of feelings here, but one predominates. After watching the increasingly grim CNN election footage for a number of hours and realizing that Hillary Clinton was not going to win, I went on Facebook and wrote, “I personally … Continue reading →