Gifts of Grief

Just days after Jacob and Kristine Watson celebrated their thirty-third wedding anniversary Kristine unexpectedly passed away while on a family reunion. Jacob was devastated engulfed in grief. A writer he did the only thing he knew: he wrote.In Gifts of Grief Watson shares his story as he describes the unexpected gifts he received not only from friends and neighbors but from the universe soap bubbles a hummingbird a neighbor's cellar candle green tree leaves overhead an offshore ocean chorus sailing on a wooden schooner an English teapot and monarch butterflies. Through his journaling Watson learned more about who he was and who he was becoming as a widower. He tells how grief can't be scheduled. It has its own way. Grief is now simply a part of him. In Gifts of Grief he offers his encouragement to others to trust grief to acknowledge it and to find a way to express it.