Welcome to the newsletter, LAMENTATIONS and the web site. This newsletter and web site is for parents who have lost children. We hope you feel that it is a safe place where you can share the loss of your child(ren)’s with those of us who have empathy and love for a fellow traveler. If this is your first time to visit the web site and the newsletter, I am so sorry you have found us, because it means that you have probably lost a child to death. As you read the web site and newsletters, I hope you will feel that you have found a group who truly understand your grief and a group with which you can identify.

Because we want everyone to know our children, this newsletter and later the web site was started and continues to be an avenue to tell others about our precious children. Please share your child(ren); we really want to know them. I hope you will get to know Young Jim by visiting his site "Jim's Page." He was a great young man who continues to make a difference in the lives who knew him here on earth, and also those who have gotten to know him since his death. He is changing the lives of many students through a scholarship in his name at the University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, KY..

All of the newsletters are now on the web site. If you have written anything about your child and/or have written original poetry, I hope you will share it with us in the next newsletter. We never tire reading about our children and being able to share them with others. I hope you will email your name, snail mail address, your child(ren)s name(s), their birth and angel dates, cause of death, and symbol(s). I would love to have a picture of of your child also. By reading all the newsletters in sequence, you not only see each of our progression in our grief, but you have the opportunity to meet our children. It is so important that we keep their memories alive. They will not be forgotten by any of us who know them.

A symbol is also important for our children’s memory. By selecting a symbol, it tells something about our child’s life and/or even events since their death, and it will also encourage others to remember them when that symbol is seen. We chose a Pegasus as Young Jim’s symbol because of his love for horses, and since he is now an angel (with his halo probably slightly tilted) he should have a winged horse on which to ride.

I hope you will lood at the many dedications we have made in our children's names, please look under "Dedications to our Children." If you would like to have your child listed with the "Birth and Angel Dates," and if you have a web site you would like to have added to "Fellow Travelers' Web sites" please let me know so we can get to know your child. If you would like to have your child listed on our "Tree of Life" you can see a picture of the tree and also find an order blank.

You are in my prayers as you journey through your grief.

Love from a fellow traveler,

Dinah Taylor