Fort Lauderdale, FL 7/29/2009 1:35:27 AM
Healing in a Time of Loss
A Book about Learning How to Cope with the Loss of a Cherished Person
Grief touches all of us eventually. Although we may sail through our younger years without ever losing anyone we hold dear, as we get older, loss becomes more and more commonplace. Sooner or later, we discover how deeply the loss of a loved one can wound us. No one who has not experienced grief firsthand can really know how devastating it can be. Still, time does heal, and sometimes just knowing that others have survived, can help. While the Wind Blows is Diana Higbee Reginato’s journey, told in both prose and poetry, of traveling on the grieving path. The path winds past the initial difficult days to a place where grief is no longer painful. With simple elegance and beautiful illustrations, she tells her story in such a way that readers can easily relate it to their own experience. While the Wind Blows can help people who are grieving learn to live with and accept their loss. Having lost her husband to cancer, the author traveled for two years from grief to acceptance and writes at the end of that journey: “As the sun rises on a new day, I am renewed in spirit. I dance in the arms of a new life and bask in the radiance of God’s smile.” Diana Higbee Reginato began writing poems, stories, and plays as a child. As a young mother of four, she wrote and performed songs for children, produced a recording of some of her songs, and co-authored a family musical. But it wasn't until her husband, Jack, was diagnosed with Lymphoma, that her writing became a personal journey through sorrow. After his death, she became a hospice volunteer and shared her writing with others. Encouraged to compile a book, While the Wind Blows was born.
