About Garnette Arledge
Garnette Arledge has written books and magazine and newspaper articles on spirituality and wellness for more than three decades. Widely traveled in Europe and India, she was raised in the Great Smoky mountains of North Carolina. As a teen-ager in Washington, DC, she learned to fly a private plane. She began writing at 9. After receiving a B.Sc. in journalism from the University of Maryland, she moved to Pittsburgh where she won an award for best feature article at the Pittsburgh Press.
After working on Capitol Hill, she married, moved to Princeton, NJ, became a freelance writer and eventually Editor of the Florham Park (NJ) Eagle. As a single mother, she raised two children, both now independent and creative. She has little grey friend, Sasha The Bereavement Dog, and two grandchildren in Spokane.
She has long had an active interest in spirituality, co-founding New Jersey's first holistic health center, the Holistic Health Association of the Princeton Area in 1976. Later, she received a Master in Divinity degree from Drew University's Theological School, and worked as a Hospice Chaplain. She also served as the Hospice Patient Services Coordinator for Atlantic Health Systems in Millburn, N.J, training volunteers and educating the public in dying wellness.
When Bill Moyer's On Our Own Terms: Dying in America was telecast on PBS, she was chair of the New Jersey Community Coalition that coordinated health-care providers and civic and religious organizations, training them to deal sensitively with terminally ill patients and their families. She is founder of the non-profit Angels Eve, Inc, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit wellness education center.
Now available as a retreat leader and for talks, she is author of the trade paperback On Angel's Eve, a spiritual guidebook for caregivers of the dying. The book vanquishes fear of dying by exploring the world wisdom traditions of Buddhism, Vedanta Hinduism, Sufism, Judaism, and Christianity. Its practical techniques offer helpful strategies for caregivers longing for the ineffable 'something to do.' She specializes in guiding people in preparing Living Wills, legally, properly and spiritually; and in writing their own Spiritual Testaments, which are ethical wills. Her articles regularly appeared in Sacred Journey journal as well as in Britain's Sacred Space journal. For years, she wrote a column, The Safety Net, on dying well, for the Recorder Newspaper Group of central New Jersey and is now working on a novel “Night of the Mothers.”
A spiritual director doing gentle Lomilomi in private practice in Ulster County, NY, she lectures at the Oncology Support Program Benedictine Hospital and leads retreats on refining listening skills, nourishing spiritual hunger with poetic tools, writing legal wills, forgiveness issues and touching the truth within by laughing at everything you can. Presently she works on a biography about creativity and spirituality and is preparing a poetry chapbook.
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ELDERSWRITE, making a book from a lifetime of living
Kindly,professional conversations offering support and stimulation via the collection of stories as keepsakes
EldersWrite© assists you or your loved one
in developing written treasures with the aim of mental stimulation and handing down legacies from generation to generation. If these oral history stories are not collected, they will be lost and the wisdom in them.
Wisdomkeeping
There are seniors with lifetimes of experience to share. There are elders who long to be stimulated, to remember and retell their stories to a cordial returning visitor. At EldersWrite we are writers and eldercare professionals who offer the caring comfort of reliable stimulation, fun, creativity, trained interviewing skills and kindly support.
Possible Subjects To Include:
Stories
Family History
Advice and Wisdom
Jokes and humor
Ethical values
Photographs
Travel mementos
Talents
Achievements
History for Descendents,
Plus . . .
EldersWrite staff will call and/or visit as often as you desire, filling hours with the satisfaction and joy of having elders’ stories listened to and collected as treasured family heirlooms.
EldersWrite, where memories are stimulated, people tell their stories to a cordial returning visitor collected and published as you choose.
How A Story is Collected
1. Caregivers and/or persons contact EldersWrite© by email to explore options. Options include either full-length memoirs, one story or multiple stories. Each story is 200 to 300 words written length and costs $75 plus shipping. Multiple stories can be made into a memoir or a book planned from the outset at cost-saving. Details are worked out and a contract prepared.
2. Set up telephone and/or personal appointments for interviews at your convenient time/date
3. Only the writer will call, introduce and identify herself
4. Next, a gentle and stimulating question-answer period to gather the story
5. Within a week, a written story sent by your choice of email or postal mail
6. Follow up editing available
7. Keepsake version mailed on archival paper
TERMS
Each story cycle includes the telephone or visit interview and one polished story for $75. Most stories are from 200-300 words length, edited and fine-tuned with follow-up until approved. After reading the first story and seeing the pleasant experience in print, other stories may be requested. Each complete story will be numbered. Another option is to gather all stories into a printed memory book with or without photos. Contract provided. Sample by request.
Individual private sessions and group classes available.
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