The Powell River Compassionate Friends

03/30/2026

Thank you Paul Jenkinson and Autumn Joy 🦋🌈

Today, on the way to the ferry, but still connected to The Powell River Compassionate Friends, I stopped. Invited by Joanie and Graham, I took a " fire bush " and an " Indian Plum Graham had nurtured and planted them in the Compassionate Friends Children's Memorial plot, out on Zelenski Road.

There are now three cemetaries that hold a memorial for my daughter Autumn Joy, one park bench dedicated to her memory, and a Fraser Valley University Autumn Jenkinson Memorial Award in place to assist a Social Work student.There is also Autumn House, a supported housing apartment building for late teen " Youth in Care" which also bears her name. I have found such honoring sites and the acts of remembering softens the loss and gives space for expressions of my parental love.

How are you walking with or with the memory of your loved one? Please feel free to comment below.

03/29/2026

03/28/2026

What new way have you found to carry your child’s Love?
For me I find Hayden in many moments. The sun, the ocean, the smiles, the quiet walks in the forest on the Seawalk.
Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I smile.
Would you like to share?

03/28/2026

So well said. ❤️🌈🦋
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CUTd7eQSa/?mibextid=wwXIfr

03/23/2026

03/12/2026

03/12/2026

So so true. Don’t change your feelings for others. When we show up with our grief we teach others that we are OK - we are grieving and this pain and sadness is part of that process.

don't try and shove it into a dresser drawer or hide it in a shoe box on the closet shelf. how could we ask it to be small? make room for it. as uncomfortable as it is. If anyone asks you to pack it down or put it away let them know that they can walk around it or they can walk away. no more trying to shrink it. no more pretending you could.
- sara rian

03/11/2026

If you are feeling blue and would like to go to a very special place to be with your thoughts, maybe connect to your child and nature - we have a beautiful memorial garden - we lovingly call “our Fairey Garden” at Holy Cross Cemetery at Kelly Creek. This cemetery is like no other. It is peaceful, calming, filled with love and surrounded by beauty. I hope you find the same. 🦋

02/23/2026

Our next meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday Feb 24@6:30. Message if you need our location.

02/22/2026

So so true. Just listen to their words.

We often think we should give advice to people in grief.
Tell them what to do.
How to feel.
But the truth is, people in grief can be our teachers.
What they really need is our presence.
How have you shown up for others in grief?