{"product_id":"grief-stone","title":"Grief Stone","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePREORDER! PLEASE ALLOW 2-3 DAYS TO SHIP.\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eManually machined and laser engraved in California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1.25\" diameter x around .350\" thick solid Brass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is Lisa's design so here's a backstory and description from her...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eThis coin was born from my own grief, and it was a long time coming.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eI had always searched for an image that could give shape to what I was feeling. My grief has taken on different forms as time passes, but its weight remains heavy.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eI came across a simple drawing of a girl lying on the ground, her cheek pressed to the earth. Beneath her, deep in the soil, rested the animal she loved. That image resonated within me: the quiet connection between above and below, between the living and the gone.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eGrief never seems to leave the body entirely.\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003eIt settles within us, becoming a part of who we are in this life, deep in our bones.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eEven today, seven years after losing my dad suddenly, it still lives in me. My sadness has not disappeared; it has changed shaped. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eOver the past year, I have had the honor of working as a hospice nurse, standing beside families in the most intimate moments of life’s end. I have witnessed final breaths. I have held space in rooms where love and heartbreak exist side by side.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eAnd in that year, I have come to understand something about death: whether it comes suddenly or slowly, the loss feels surreal.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eThere is often this quiet disbelief from the people left behind, this feeling that someone can be gone while the world continues as if nothing has changed. People still laugh. Traffic still moves. The sun still rises. And somehow, we are expected to carry the weight of that loss while the earth keeps turning.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eThis coin represents that split.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eThe two bleeding hearts symbolize the divide between the living and the dead. One remains above the ground, still beating, still asked to continue. The other rests beneath the soil, returned to silence, returned to memory.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eBut they are not separate.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eRoots connect them, just as love connects us beyond physical presence. What is buried is not gone. It moves through everything unseen: the ground beneath us, the air we breathe, the life we carry forward.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eThe wolves stand as guardians of that bond, half above and half below the soil. They represent a devotion that does not dissolve when someone is gone.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eGrief exists in two worlds at once: the life that continues, and the life that changed forever.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eAbove the living heart, flowers bloom and birds rise, not because the pain has ended, but because life insists on continuing.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eThis coin began as a tribute to my father.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eBut it belongs to anyone who has loved and lost.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eBecause even when someone is no longer here, the connection remains.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eThe bond remains.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"J. L. Lawson \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Brass","offer_id":43017256435778,"sku":"JLL_grief_br","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Amethyst","offer_id":43017257156674,"sku":"JLL_grief_amethyst","price":179.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0112\/3342\/files\/JLL_grief_a.jpg?v=1771888482","url":"https:\/\/www.jllawsonco.mom\/products\/grief-stone","provider":"J. L. Lawson \u0026 Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}