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In September I went out of town to do some deep and beautiful work with people I love a lot around the delicate and intricate and often...

When the universe gives you a portal, go through it, even if the doorway is dripping in grief and your inner child is quaking in her...

July 20 would have been my mom’s 82nd birthday. Accidentally (there are no accidents) every book I read during my week away last week was...

Not gonna lie, friends, Empire’s got me down. I can metabolize my grief until I can’t and maybe the Supreme Court on top of everything...

One of my favorite moments of the season where I am held by my gardens is when my peonies bloom. I inherited them from one of the women...

There have been so many times I have wanted to rush past the moment I was in and get to the next phase of whatever I thought my...

2023 was really something. I don’t have a highlight reel or things to list I just know this has has been one of the most informative and...

There is a hole in my heart the shape of my mom, and it flares when I do holiday errands and wish she were riding next to me, snacking on...

When I think of the story of Demeter and Persephone, Hades and the pomegranate, I find myself seeing most clearly the grief of a mother...

Grief is expansive. It enters when what we knew to be true is no longer. A medical diagnosis, a parent dying, a friend or lover leaving...

I have been thinking a lot lately about grief and choices- the choices we make, the ones others make, and the things we would never...

Today is the 14th anniversary of my mom’s transition to whatever comes after these earthly lives. Our relationship was beautiful, flawed,...

"We can sit with knowing that even as we are faced with extraordinary pain and destruction. that the in tact nature of the world remains...

If we don't deny the inevitable end to our story, we will write it more beautiful while we are alive" -Andrea Gibson These trees live in...

My name is Abby and this is Garnet and the Moon, a site and blog to learn about death and loss and explore grief and sorrow (and joy! and...