Beth Rahe Balas

Beth Rahe Balas is an artist in the tradition of many women, including her mother and grandmothers. Her non-linear creative path includes work in museum and architecture fields, teaching, and garden design. Beth is the Grief Dialogues program assistant and a member of the Advisory Board. “Writing this story has reflected back to me an objectivity and maturity I rarely feel when I replay these moments in my heart. Though the grief is still very present, the passage of 9 years since my mother’s death has shaped the ashes of this sad time into something solid, like a gazing ball: round and cool, and sparkling in the dark.”

Loss of Parent

The Clan Stitch

After ten years of loss, confusion, and pain, Mom was finally at rest. No more shuffling gait, face swollen from meds, suffering the indignities of

November 4, 2016