Lakeville Journal Opinion/Viewpoint

Pandemics leave their remnants in traumas of death and illness. Nurses, doctors, and patients were stunned by the scrambles that the Covid-19 virus produced. Columbia Presbyterian, a thousand bed teaching hospital in Manhattan was converted to emergency rooms to treat gasping Covid patients.

You’ve been there, or you know someone who’s been there. Or you are there right now, or you have an inconsolable friend. The grieving journey is uncomfortable and not fun and it is indisputably part of life. What if we were better equipped to deal with grief before it lands on our front door and comes right in, uninvited?

From the editor: This is a letter sent to the Office of Health Strategy by the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon board of directors.

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, I write to oppose Nuvance Health’s proposed closure of the Labor and Delivery Unit at Sharon Hospital.

100 years ago — December 1922

William Tolliver while out fox hunting on Tuesday of last week had the misfortune to break a finger in his right hand, caused by his horse rearing suddenly.

This is the time of year that makes us think about the things and the people in our lives for which we are grateful. We all have our problems, but we all have our blessings as well, and this has been the time to consider the balance between the two.

Our caring hospital in Sharon

I am sitting by my wife in a Sharon Hospital room as she gently but inexorably comes to the end of our 72-year love affair, the last sixty enriched among our Litchfield Hills. The afternoon November sunlight streams over our hills through the room’s southwest-facing windows.