Author: John Calvi

I want to say somethings about touch- to remind you how important touch is, especially during this time of not touching.  I am speaking with some authority as one with thirty-eight years of experience as a touch professional, a Certified Massage Therapist specializing in trauma. First, a few basics.  People need touch.  No really!  This is serious.  The absence of […]

Did it all fall apart today?  Did the worst come down on you like fire and hell and rocks all at once?  Did you ever think it would be so bad?  So awful?  So full of terrible? We watch for bad things, we do.  We suspect some bad things, but never this bad, never this hard and hurtful.  We don’t expect […]

I’ve done lots of hospice work over the years.  Helping people to have as good a death as possible is a lovely, intimate, delicate work.  There’s a piece of dying that comes before, well before leaving life begins.  This is sharing the story of your life, putting the down chronology of your own journey. Often those mourning are […]

A few ideas have been swirling in my mind for some time now and maybe it’s this late night in the cold early spring that finally brings these ideas together to make a whole.  I will have to write for a while to see what comes. I’ve been thinking about saving a life, the large and […]