Walking Forward Together

10/04/2026

Registration is free
But you do need to register so that we know approximate numbers for food and memorials

We can’t wait to see you there

10/03/2026

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👀see below👀

Please check to see if your baby’s name is on the list and if the spelling correct!
The list will be going in TOMORROW!!!

Last day to add your baby’s name is TODAY!

No purchase necessary
No attendance to event is necessary

We honor your baby every day 🫶🏼

If you need do not see your baby’s name or need to correct the spelling please DM.

Otherwise please use form in the comments. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

09/26/2026

This is how we feel that you may not realize

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”

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Such a beautiful explanation of grief by Jamie Anderson.
Isn’t this a powerful sculpture. It’s by Hsieh Tong-Liang

With love
Fiona
www.earthmonk.guru

09/26/2026

2026 Walk to Remember shirts!

08/25/2026

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08/24/2026

05/10/2026

I love this….
For the mother who has lost a child...

There’s an order that life is supposed to follow.

An order of breaths we are supposed to take,
as if we are passing a torch from one generation to the next.

And our torch is supposed to go out before our child’s flame is extinguished.

We are supposed to watch them take their first breath. But not their last.
We are supposed to hear the thud-thud of their heart when it starts beating. But never the silence when it stops.

That heart that we once carried inside of us. That breath that we gave them. That life that we kept safe, protected.

So when the order of life is disrupted,
when their torch goes out before yours,
it is as if you too have been robbed of your breath
and as if your heart has stopped beating as well.

There is nothing that can make it less painful.
You would blow out your flame if it meant theirs could burn.
But you can’t. Even though that’s how it should be.

So all you can do is carry them inside you -
like you did once before. Except now they have to stay in your heart forever.
And though it hurts, know that they are safe there.
They are protected.

Because a mother’s love is unending.
Because it burns forever with every breath you take and with every beat your heart makes.

Because a mother’s love is a flame
that can
never
be extinguished.

*****

I’m sharing it in the lead up to Mothers’ Day for many, but I know that it doesn’t only apply to mothers. Sending love to anyone this resonates with.

Becky Hemsley 2023

05/10/2026

Love this for this Mothers Day

Hope everyone has a gentle day with family and friends and giving yourself the grace that you deserve… 🌸🌸🌸

04/12/2026

there are some kinds of grief that don’t have a clear shape

no casseroles at the door
no long lines of people checking in

just quiet & a heart that feels heavier than it ever has before

losing a baby changes you in ways people can’t always see

it’s in the dates you remember that no one else knows mattered
the “what ifs” that play in your mind at the most random times.
the way you can smile & still feel a deep ache underneath it all

people say time heals but this kind of loss doesn’t just disappear

you learn to carry it
you learn to breathe around it
you learn how to keep going while holding something that will always be missing

& even though the world kept turning, mine paused for a moment that felt like forever