Trauma and Grief

In a dark, eerie forest, one weak ray of a hazy setting sun shines through the almost-bare trees.

Spiritual sundowner’s: When darkness overwhelms you

Post published:November 11, 2022
Post category:Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:September 24, 2025

Darkness can increase disorientation. It can increase anxiety and depression. Can something similar be true spiritually? Can spiritual sundowner’s be a thing?

Light is breaking through

Post published:November 24, 2019
Post category:My Story Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:April 24, 2026

In the very act of seeing what is brown, murky and decidedly unsafe, there’s movement. There’s life. And the light is breaking through.

Black-and-white photo taken July, 1863, after Battle of Gettysburg: Three Confederate prisoners (apparently in civilian clothes) wait next to a log barricade.

My Gettysburg legacy and this turning time

Post published:July 2, 2013
Post category:My Story Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:February 8, 2025

In a very real way, I was there when my great-great-grandfather Lorenzo Whitaker survived the Civil War, and more specifically, the Battle of Gettysburg.