One Love and Two Lives

The One Love and Two Lives podcast series documents in a personal way the journey of both those who leave and those who are left behind.

My dad died on May 28, 1997, the day before my mom’s 75th birthday. Until mom’s death in 2020 Pat and I often returned to Spokane on those dates to honor my dad’s whole life before waking up the next morning and celebrating mom’s birthday.

Pat and I returned to Spokane in 2022 to honor my parents for who they had been in life as well
as recognizing and ritualizing who and what they were becoming. We started that first day at places my folks lived and worked and raised their family. We finished the second day downstream on the banks of the Spokane River. We felt we had somehow arrived, for them and for ourselves, at a moment of endings and new beginnings.

Blog posts

  • Opening the Gate

    A childhood full of memories
    (10/10/2023)
    Holiday greetings from the Pearsons circa 1957

  • Letting in the Light

    Healing can come when one brings light to the darkness.
    (10/19/2023)
    My dad and I among the shadows

  • Journey Home

    There is something awe inspiring about watching salmon return from whence they came.
    (10/26/2023)
    The journey home...

  • Part of the River

    There is something very real and truly magical about a river
    (11/1/2023)

  • There You Were

    More and more I have come to believe in the importance of rituals and transitions. This visit Pat and i made to my parents' gravesite was the time to truly understand they were both on the other side of this life now.
    (11/6/2023)

  • Leading Me To You

    There are times to step out of one's life and then times to return to one's life.
    (11/16/2023)

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