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State Street (STT) and BlackRock (BLK), two of the largest ETF providers, released earnings this week that illustrate the continued momentum behind exchange-traded funds. Data from Morningstar for March 2013 showed strong flows to the two firms, along with very sizeable flows to ETF provider Vanguard.
State Street, which released its earnings Friday, has 120 SPDR-branded ETFs and 14 mutual funds in its product line.
In the first quarter, it earned $0.98 per share on $455 million of net income versus $0.85 per share on $417 million of net income in the year-ago period. Sales of $2.44 billion grew 1% from the first quarter of 2012.
Total assets under administration were $25.4 trillion as of March 31 vs. $23.3 trillion a year ago.
According to a presentation by State Street in March, the firm had $81 billion in net new assets in 2012, $41 billion of which were in ETFs. Of the $41 billion, $23 billion were in equity-focused products.
For its part, BlackRock—which markets iShares—had first quarter '13 EPS of $3.62, up 15% from a year ago. Revenue increased 9% from the first quarter 2012.
"Our $39.4 billion in long-dated net new business for the quarter is indicative of positive momentum across all client channels and was driven by the strategic themes we continue to focus on: ETFs, retirement, income, multi-asset-class products and alternatives," said BlackRock CEO and Chairman Laurence D. Fink (left) in a press release.
According to its earnings presentation, iShares currently represents about 22% of BlackRock's total assets under management, up from 20% a year ago. The ETFs bring in 35% of the company's base fees—an increase from 31% a year earlier.
In related news, Morningstar said Friday that Vanguard had asset flows of $8.2 billion in March and $34 billion of flows in the first quarter of 2013. BlackRock had fund flows of $1.2 billion in March and $7.7 billion in the first quarter. These figures do not include ETFs, Morningstar says.
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State Street, the marketer of the SPDR Gold ETF (GLD), which has fallen out of favor with investors along with the precious metal itself, saw its U.S. ETF outflows top $6.4 billion in Q1'13 vs. inflows of $9.4 billion a year ago.
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Today marks the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the AMIA, the Argentina-Israeli Mutual Association (the equivalent of a JCC — Jewish Community Center — in the US), in Buenos Aires, claiming 85 lives (I've seen the toll at 86 also). I have compiled a few videos, pulling together the ones with English subtitles. In 2004, 10 Argentinian film-makers created a documentary-drama called "18-J" referring to the 18th of July, the date of the attack, containing 10 ten-minute vignettes and focusing on the universality of the tragedy (note, I have not seen the film; rather I am basing my commentary on what I have read).
The following TV spot, with English subtitles, was released a few weeks ago.
This is the full-length video that was, I believe, aired on national TV yesterday at 9:53 am showing pictures and reading the names of the victims.
This short 2008 TV spot is a tribute to the 85 terrorist victims.
"Despedidas" 18J. English version
This video was made last year for the film "18-J" at the Cannes Film Festival and discusses how the Argentine community came together to raise awareness and commemorate the victims.
A few articles that I came across:
– This year's tribute was cancelled due to the H1N1 outbreak, by which Argentina has been particularly hard-struck (with a high mortality rate, thought the overall incidence could be under-reported).
– The Forward published an opinion piece this week about continued vigilance necessary in efforts to thwart the relationship between Iran, especially given its current political and civil unrest, and Latin America.
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As a follow-up to my Jan. 29 and Feb. 6 AdvisorOne blogs on measuring advisor performance, I had a conversation with Lon Dolber, founder and CEO of American Portfolios, a Holbrook, N.Y.-based independent broker-dealer.
Lon had the dubious distinction of having launched his firm on Sept. 11, 2001. But his timing doesn't seem to have hurt the BD's growth: Today, American Portfolios has 350 affiliated advisory firms with some $17 billion in client AUM. "Our timing was actually kind of a blessing," he said. "We didn't have anywhere to go but up. And we got a number of advisors right off the bat who were unhappy with how their former BD handled the crisis."
Dolber's done a lot of thinking in recent years about measuring advisor performance; both because clients are increasingly asking about it, and to identify advisors who might benefit from additional help in managing their portfolios better. His BD uses Albridge Wealth Reporting for its portfolio and account aggregation system, which allows him to track all of the accounts over which each advisor has discretion. "Then you can compare how they did compared to all the rest," he said. "Here's an advisor's aggregate against a benchmark, and against his or her peers."
To address the issue of different goals for different clients, Dolber compares advisors' performance at managing similar kinds of accounts: low risk, balanced, and aggressive. It's certainly a step in the direction of measuring performance, but not without issues of its own. For one thing, comparison-to peer performance can be hard for clients to evaluate. If an advisor is in a group of excellent portfolio managers, even being near the bottom of the group might be very good performance for the clients. (For instance, half of the doctors in the U.S. graduated in the bottom half of their med school class.) Conversely, placing at the top of a rather "mediocre" group of managers might not help clients reach their goals.
Dolber acknowledges these shortcomings in measuring advisor performance, and sees the demand for such metrics in the perspective of a larger problem: How advisors are compensated. "When you measure portfolio performance, what are you measuring?" he asks. "Investments? What about the other advice that advisors provide? What about the quality of that advice? We're doing this, one step at a time. The next step is looking at the [overall business] model."
Dolber is, of course, raising the issue of the challenge that has plagued independent financial planners since the creation of their profession back in 1971: How do you get paid to provide comprehensive financial advice? Over the years, they've been paid commissions on the products recommended, and, more recently, fees on investment assets, but rarely have advisors been paid directly for their advice. While fees have reduced many conflicts, they still leave a misleading impression of the services an advisor is providing. "The problem is that retail investment advice is becoming a commodity," said Dolber. "Today, some guys will do it for 40 bps, and it's coming down—and down."
For Dolber, the solution is an advisory business model based on charging retainers. "We have to look at what's going on in other countries, such as Australia where they charge flat retainers for advice," he said. "It will be more complex to do that in the U.S., where our regulation is more complex. But I believe the vision for retail financial services is to build businesses solely on retainer: Here's what we are charging, and here's what we'll do for it."
While Dolber may be right, historically advisors faced considerable resistance when trying to "sell" retainer compensation their clients, many of whom seem to prefer that their advisors make less when their portfolios decline in value and more when they grow. Plus, from a business standpoint, flat retainers tend to cap an advisor's income: one advisor can only handle a fixed number of clients. Consequently, retainer-based revenues don't seem to produce anywhere near the same valuations as the three-to-four-times revenue multiple as advisory firms who get their reveneues from fees on AUM.
Perhaps the biggest problem with getting clients to accept retainers is that most advisors attempt to make the transition from fees following a market decline, after firm revenues—and portfolio values—have fallen. If the advisory industry is going to once again try to make the switch to retainer compensation, now's the time to do it: After the market has made substantial gains, and before it takes an inevitable downturn. Retainers will certainly solve the problem of measuring advisor performance, and advisors would finally be getting paid for delivering quality advice.


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The beleaguered 401(k) has been under unrelenting pressure from every direction. Eliminating its tax subsidies was a much discussed idea during the march toward the fiscal cliff, then again as a way to avoid the sequester cuts.
Recently, a prominent liberal blogger stirred controversy in a USA Today op-ed titled "401Ks are a disaster," calling for a massive boost in Social Security benefits funded by taxes on the rich and a lifting of the salary cap in Social Security taxes.
Not to be outdone, a conservative author is heating up the blogosphere with a full frontal assault on the 401(k), advocating that Americans not contribute to their retirement plans for fear the government will eventually be forced to confiscate their assets when the day comes that the liberal blogger's Social Security scheme is realized.
Last month, the economist Duncan Black, who writes one of the most popular liberal blogs, Eschaton (an expression connoting the divinely ordained climax of history), under the pseudonym Atrios, took to the pages of USA Today, calling on the government to increase Social Security benefits by 20 percent.
"The 401(k) experiment has been a disaster, a disaster which threatens to doom millions to economic misery during the later years of their lives," Black wrote, arguing that current and near retirees lack sufficient funds to maintain their standards of living, while younger workers will be too economically squeezed by college debt and difficulty finding good jobs to save for their futures. Black wrote the benefits hike should occur immediately, "even if that means raising taxes on high incomes or removing the salary cap in Social Security taxes."
Meanwhile, Aaron Clarey (right), whose Captain Capitalism blog includes what he calls the "rantings and tirades of a frustrated economist," added to the eschatological debate with a book published in January called Enjoy the Decline, in which Carey audaciously advocates behaviors like shopping for another country and not funding a 401(k). The advice is especially ironic because, according to his website, Carey teaches investment classes including one called "Figuring Out Your 401(k)," which he, no doubt accurately, describes as a "class that goes above and beyond what your HR department will" recommend.
In his book, Clarey describes recent precedents for countries absconding with their citizens' private retirement wealth, citing Argentina's seizure of private pensions in 2008, and similar moves by Bolivia and Hungary in 2010 and Bulgaria in 2011. AdvisorOne caught up with the controversial blogger, who teaches investment classes to students worldwide through the online learning portal Ed2Go, when he's not teaching ballroom dancing to students of his Midwestern dance studio. Efforts by AdvisorOne to reach Black were unsuccessful.
You say the government might one day confiscate Americans' retirement savings. What about the Fifth Amendment, which states "…nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation?"
Honestly and truthfully I believe the government would confiscate Americans' retirement savings. As for the statistical chances of it, I would say only 40 percent right now as it would be incredibly unpopular, making it a theoretical "4th rail of politics." But as our finances get progressively worse, politicians will be forced to find some source of wealth to … pay for all the various social programs. Their only other option is to hyperinflate their way out of it.
As for the Fifth Amendment, it would be rendered moot, as the reason or rationale that will be provided is — in return for people's private pensions/401(k) plans/IRAs, etc., a government pension will be provided instead. This, no doubt, will be used to rationalize away any Fifth Amendment concerns, and barring some moral and courageous judges striking it down, I see all three branches of government invariably agreeing on this excuse.
What would the confiscation look like, were it to actually occur?
It would be very easy, almost unnoticeable, in that the vast majority of savings and retirement funds are electronically stored. It would simply be a matter of the government (via the SIPC or FDIC) merely confiscating those funds and transferring them to the U.S. Treasury. You can also look at how countries like Argentina, Bolivia, Bulgaria and Poland did it to get a perspective on how countries have done it in the past.
Is Social Security fixable?
Mathematically, yes. Increase the retirement age to the average life expectancy — as it was originally set up — and index it to any future increases in life expectancy; the thing would be solvent overnight. You could also dare ask AARP members to consider future generations and maybe take a 10 percent cut from their Social Security checks. Santa Claus could also play an important role by leaving platinum bars for every child every year at Christmas. And a bottle I found the other day might have a genie in it — one of the three wishes I'd use to solve the Social Security problem.
So technically, no, it can't be fixed.
You teach classes on investing, including one called "Figuring Out Your 401(k)." Do you really advocate not saving for retirement?
I advocate saving for retirement…just not in the traditional manner we've been trained to. Since your 401(k)s and IRAs can be confiscated or, at minimum, have their tax benefits rescinded, I believe there is too much risk in pursuing those forms of retirement. Therefore you have to find other methods to retire. These methods I outline in my book, Enjoy the Decline, but they include things like physical ownership of precious metals, guns, bullets, and other items that store their value well. I also advocate learning trades and skills that are in high demand and you can mete out into your old age (carpentry, moonshining, electrician, mechanic, etc.) Unfortunately, however, none of them are conducive to the "pie-in-the-sky, we-all-retire-at-65″ indoctrination Americans were fed. They're realistic and assume you live frugally, work well past 65, but work less overall in that you're paying less in taxes and enjoying life more.
Being willing to move overseas is another means by which you can retire…If it gets to the point the U.S. government is nationalizing our accounts, you might as well be getting out.
Is the profession of financial advice among the most valuable services today, or is it a hopeless, Sisyphean task given all the market manipulation you see taking place?
It's becoming progressively more hopeless not so much in terms of market manipulation, but the…clients. When you tell people the realities of the economy and our financial future, they get mad and don't want to hire you anymore. I have no limit of aged baby boomers who at 58 finally pay off the house, finally pay off their fifth child's "doctorate in poetry" and then decide now they want to start planning for retirement. And they want to retire by 62. I tell them point blank it's impossible, mathematically show it to them, explain how they'll have to work until they're 70, and they get mad, preferring to shoot the messenger.
However, this opens up a whole new market of financial planning, the one where people are willing to listen. It's barely populated because most financial advisors don't want to sound like a "conspiracy nut" telling people to prepare for the apocalypse. But if you're willing to be direct and forthright, you can find, address and serve people's financial needs.
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While it's impossible to know what the future holds, it is possible to surmise what large numbers of investors think the future holds.
And from the perspective of Martin Kremenstein (left), who oversees Deutsche Bank's $12 billion ETF portfolio in the U.S., investors are seeking portfolio diversification and expressing concern over inflation risk through a significant and growing allocation to commodities.
Speaking with AdvisorOne ahead of this year's InsideETFs conference, which kicks off Sunday in Hallandale Beach, Fla., the Deutsche Bank executive has a unique vantage point, since he oversees the market's largest broad-based commodities ETF.
And what he sees is a fund that is swelling with investment at an accelerating rate. The PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (DBC), with about $6.5 billion in assets, raised $1 billion in net new assets last year, at more than twice 2012's combustive pace, adding another $200 million in January.
Calling DBC a bellwether for investor sentiment on commodities, Kremenstein says investors are adding exposure to the asset class primarily for two reasons.
"Sometimes they are using it as a hedge against inflation and other times as a diversifier to smooth out portfolio returns," he says. "It's never a bad time to use as a diversifier."
Fears of inflation have risen to higher proportions recently, he adds.
"People are more worried about inflation than they have been in a while. The shooting up of ag prices late last year has gotten many people worried about food and energy inflation."
As to portfolio diversification, he says "people have been underallocated [to commodities] for some time."
The other key trend Kremenstein sees investors preparing for in 2013 is a strengthening dollar.
"The currency exposure that investors are running from their foreign investments, they've never paid any attention to," the Deutsche Bank executive says. "They tend to only starting to examine it when it starts to go against them," a lesson the election of Japan's new prime minister is currently teaching investors.
A proponent of aggressive monetary easing, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe campaigned on a platform of weakening the yen as a means of boosting the moribund Japanese economy. Anticipating his victory in December, Japanese equities began soaring in November.
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It is with a very heavy heart that I tell you what's been happening with me this past week.
Last Saturday morning I received a shocking phone call that my dad had suddenly passed away. He was extremely healthy, the kind of person who obsessed over what he put in his body and the fact is he suffered an aortic aneurysm while lifting weights at the gym. No one in my family would have suspected this could have happened, I mean he was only 53 and he was planning on doing so many things with us still.
It's hard for me to try to convey to you the man my father was, he was so many wonderful things to me and my mom, my sister, my husband and my son. My parents live only 15 minutes away so I'm still coming to the realization that my dad won't just show up on my doorstep, like he did so many times in the past, and visit with us or want to spend time with Israel. But the truth is that with him gone we have a gaping hole in our lives, one that no one else can fill.
The past week has been the hardest I've ever lived through. Seeing the pain in my family's eyes and not having my dad's comfort and love during a time when I'm in so much pain has made the simplest activities difficult at best.
My father was proud of me for many reasons but I know he was proud of my accomplishments, my goals and it's thinking of that which propels me to continue my blog along with the ambitions we had when he was still with us. Truthfully though the grief comes and goes. Sometimes I can be productive while trying to get back to my normal routine, other times I feel like I could fall apart and never recover. I miss him with all of my heart and I don't quite know how yet to live without him.
And while I promise my blog won't turn into some rambling, emotional online diary for myself I will post some thoughts time to time. Grief and loss is a part of the human experience, everyone encounters it at some point and as terrible as it is I knew someday I would have to face this. If there is anything I've learned so far it's that there is not just 1 way to grieve loss. I've experienced shock, lots of emotions, confusion, hopelessness, anger, frustration but also love and support. Knowing that there are those of you out there who might know what losing a parent feels like and then knowing that you made it, that you're thriving still is something that encourages me tremendously. To know someone else has woken up in the morning already with tears in their eyes, realizing this wasn't some horrible nightmare but that you still moved forward with your life makes me feel that I can do the same.
As difficult as this is to write I wanted to be open and honest with you, dear readers. This blog is so much a part of me, it is something I have made all by myself. I have tried to be as honest and true as I can be so when something as significant as losing one of my greatest supporters happens, I want you to know.
I appreciate your thoughts and prayers for my family, even though you don't know them. Thank you for following, thank you for reading.
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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.ReplyDelete
Your father will always be with you, in your love for him.
I'm so sorry. Your dad was so young. My best friend lost her husband to cancer this past year and now she's raising 3 kids on her own. Grief is exhausting physically. Be kind to yourself and rest when you need to.Jana @ 333 Days of Hand LetteringReplyDelete
Please stay strong and positive Jennifer. We send our prayers to your family and you. <3ReplyDelete
Sending my sympathies to your family in an unspeakably sad time Jennifer. Saying anything else in a comment box seems a little empty and saying anything else probably won't help much right now. But I just wanted you to know that as a long time reader of AMM (and sorry, kind of crappy at commenting) that I'm here and I will never mind reading about your thoughts or grief. So even though I can't say anything to make it better your family's in my thoughts..ReplyDelete
Jenn, I truly am so sorry that you are going through this grief and that you've lost someone so very important in your life. Your father was just about the same age as my sister — a sobering thought. So young. No one is ever ready for that kind of loss, but how fortunate that he was able experience being a grandfather to Israel, and to see his daughter become a mother.ReplyDelete
Take care of yourself, and of your family. You will all carry on. x
I am so sorry for your loss, Jennifer. I can't quite imagine what it feels like, yet tears are rolling down my face. I'm often stopped by the thought that so many of my close friends have lost a parent. Wishing you and your family strength and hope!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2013
Been reading your blog for a long time. I am so sorry.ReplyDelete
I'm really sorry for your loss.ReplyDelete
I've just gone through the scare of the same thing happening to me. My father is much like yours, the healthiest, fittest person ever and was diagnosed with a rare type of lymfoma six months ago. Five years earlier it couldn't have been cured but now there is treatment and it's possible it won't come back. The treatment is almost finished now, the stem cell transplant remaining.
I don't really know where I'm going with this... Wishing you all the strength in the world!
Your reader,
Liisa from Finland
So so sorry for your loss! I know it's hard, I've been through all that but try to stay strong!ReplyDelete
I am so, so sorry for your loss. I can only begin to imagine what you're going through, and so like many who have left messages here today, I struggle to find the right words. Words of comfort. Words that help to heal. I'm not very good at finding that kind of words. (Perhaps no one is.) But the beautiful words of Mary Anne Evans come to mind... " Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."ReplyDelete
I wish your family strength in these difficult times.
Its my first time writing a comment, but Im so sorry for your loss and sending all my love from Spain.ReplyDelete
I am so sorry reading this and so glad, you have written about it. losing our parents, is one of the toughest things, we have to go through growing older. and as cheesy as this might sound, remembering them in the best possible way, is the most precious gift, they have given us. my heart goes out for you and your loved ones.ReplyDelete
so very sorry for your lossReplyDelete
this post made me tear up and i felt a squeeze in my heart
sending you all the best
a lot of strength
but also time to grieve and let go
Words cannot express...so sad for you and your family's loss. Sending you prayers and thoughts for comfort and healing.ReplyDelete
Send you all my love and wish you and your family strength to go trough the loss of your dad. I have been reading your beautiful blog for a long time and follow you on Instagram. Take care. <3ReplyDelete
This is so sad, my thoughts are with you and your family. Anna xxReplyDelete
Very sorry for your loss...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 27, 2013
I am so sorry for your loss. Your blog has been a source of inspiration and solace to me this year, through a different kind of loss, and I am so sorry about the pain you are experiencing. Thank you for sharing your life, the good and the bad, with us readers. My thoughts are with you and your family.
After a week of rain and cold weather, we woke up these morning with a beautiful day, full of light and hope... i send you my best from Quebec!ReplyDelete
So very, very sorry for your loss. Happy memories live forever in your heart...ReplyDelete
I'm really sorry for your loss. Much love for you and your family!ReplyDelete
My deepest condolences to you. I unfortunately have lost both my parents and my son. The best thing I can say is to realize that you are just at the very beginning of grieving. Know that and be gentle and caring to yourself as you pass through many, many more dark days. You will get better, but not immediately or quickly. And that's OK. Take care of yourself.ReplyDelete
So sorry for your loss, Jennifer. Sending you strength and support. We're all here and will listen when you need someone to talk to. Take care. xxReplyDelete
Really sorry for your loss. Your blog is inspirational, also because it evolves and feels so real. Please feel free to share when you feel like it. Your father's pride in you lives on. Sending strength to your loved ones.ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry for your loss. Take care!ReplyDelete
<3 Im's sorry for your loss.ReplyDelete
This is a finnish poem. Sorry I can't translate this:
Nyt olen vapaa ja mukana tuulen saan kulkea rannalla ajattomuuden. Olen kimallus tähden olen pilven lento, olen kasteisen aamun pisara hento. En ole poissa, vaan luoksenne saavun mukana jokaisen nousevan aamun ja jokaisen tummuvan illan myötä, toivotan teille hyvää yötä.
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now i'm free and can move with the wind on the shore of timelessness. i'm the sparkle of a star, i am the flight of a cloud, i am a delicate droplet on a dewey morning. i'm not gone, i am with you each rising morning and with every darkening evening, i bid you good night.
all of my thoughts with you and your family through your time of loss. take lots of good care.
we are never prepared nor will we ever be for the loss of a loved one. take time to grieve and know that he is always in your heart. truly saddened to read this and my thoughts and prayers are with you and your beautiful family. love and hugs.ReplyDelete
This had me in tears. I wish you strength and love at this time. When we lose someone close its extremely difficult to deal with but time will help heal you. I found it has helped me in my experience to try to always think of what I had not what I lost. I guess being grateful for having been given such an amazing person in your life even if taken too soon, having them was an amazing thing you will cherish the rest of your days and think yourself one of the lucky ones to have been blessed with that kind of love. Hope this helps.ReplyDelete
Positive vibrations ;)
So sorry for your loss. I wish you and your family all the support in the world and of course my thoughts are with you. I think it's very admirable of you to share such an intimate and truly the sadest situation on your blog, sharing your strength with all of us. Take care, love, MariaReplyDelete
So sorry for your loss. Keep the memories alive. My thoughts are with you and your family.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 27, 2013
I pray for you and your family!ReplyDelete
Oh lovely! I am so sad to hear of your loss, it is every son or daughter's worst nightmare. Take good care of yourself and your family during this difficult time. Be as strong as you can...ReplyDelete
So sorry to hear about the loss of your Dad. Sending prayers.ReplyDelete
So sorry for the loss of a good man, Father, Husband...ReplyDelete
Take care.
Thank you for sharing I recently lost my father and your words are reassuring in the depth of agony that one can feel. I have taken my friends advice to surrender to the pain and also simultaneously learning to let the jagged edge of grief become a healthy part of who I am now. I also sometimes have to live by the mantra dad would not me to suffer like this. His pure and never wavering love gets me through the pain his absence has created and for that I need to let his love and guidance be the force that pushes me and not the suffering of which it can also be necessary to succumb to.ReplyDelete
I want to let you know that I care deeply about this pain and struggle you are enduring. Know that you are in my prayers and thoughts.ReplyDelete
So very sorry for your loss! Thank you for sharing with others though - even when it must be so hard for you. Lots of thoughts coming your way.ReplyDelete
Love and light to you, xoReplyDelete
I am so sorry for your loss - I can not imagine the sorrow you are going through. Take solace that he loved, was loved and will continue to be loved - and that he left a legacy albeit one too short. Prayers and thoughts are with you throughout this sad timeReplyDelete
Oh such a terrible loss...I'm so sorry XxReplyDelete
Take comfort that your father & son got to know & love each other so XxXx
I am a fairly new reader of your blog, but I just wanted to add my condolences to you and your family. I am so sorry for your sudden loss.ReplyDelete
Blessings, Amy
I'm so sorry for your loss. My prayers are with you and your family.ReplyDelete
The sudden, totally unexpected loss of a beloved family member is surreal. My heart aches for you and your family. Our family too experienced unexpected loss almost three years ago. It is so hard and the journey is personal but there are many blessings along the way. My prayers are with you.ReplyDelete
thinking of you and your family during this time. you're only human so please do share your thoughts. there are thousands, if not millions, that have gone through this and would love hearing another voice.ReplyDelete
I'm sorry for your loss. I know the feeling. My dad passed away unexpectedly when he got a cardial arrest celebrating his 60th birthday with some collegues in 2011. We spent almost tree days in the hospital hoping that it would turn out alright. The feeling was completely surreal and I felt that it was so unfair losing your father at the age of 21. It has been a rough path, and a single day doesn't go by without me thinking about my dad. But it gets easier along the way, where each day seems a bit brighter.ReplyDelete
Lots of love!
I was gonna comment before, but couldn't get thru from my cell. I'm really sorry for your loss :( Thinking of you and will pray for you and your family. Lots of love from Sweden! xoReplyDelete
I hope you continue to find the strength to move forward. Please take care.ReplyDelete
At a time like this words seem so inadequate, with deepest sympathy so sorry for your loss. xReplyDelete
Dear I'm so sorry for your loss, thank you for be so honest and brave, you will see the sun will rise again, and you will laugh and you will get trough this with the love of your family and friends. I'm sending lot's of love and prayers to you and your family.ReplyDelete
Take care XO
Oh, I´m so sorry for you, I can totally understand that this has been a very hard experience for you. It happens so suddenly, without any warning.. Life is so fragile :( I just learnt some days ago that my mom has a tumor in her brain and it needs to be operated soon. I´m still processing that.. I wish you all the best! Take care!ReplyDelete
Jennifer you are so brave and honest. I will pray for you and everyone you love. I'm sorry!ReplyDelete
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. I lost my mother to cancer 17 years ago; it still hurts at times but the years have helped me go from a time where I had no idea how I would go on living to remembering little things about her every day, the things that make her live in my memory. My prayers are also with your mother... I cannot imagine how painful it is to lose the love of your life. My father still misses her every day but has been able to find happiness with his significan other (they have been together for 11 years).ReplyDelete
It is so sad for you and your family.ReplyDelete
As i am questionning about what is blogging, i find you are sharing a very strong news. It takes all its sense. We are living people.
I send you my soft thoughts from france.
I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and thank you for being such an inspiration with your blog. My thoughts and prayers are with you.ReplyDelete
I am sorry for you and your family, losing a close family member unexpectedly is so intensely painful. I love what you have to say about creating this authentic space on your blog and how proud he was of you for it. You bring a peaceful beauty to the blog world.ReplyDelete
My heart and thoughts are with you! I'm so sorry to hear of your loss!ReplyDelete
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Jennifer, just wanted to add some more love to the pile. My heart goes out to you and your family. I have been so fortunate not to experience the loss of a parent as yet, it makes me incredibly sad just to think of it. There couldn't possibly be anything anyone could say to fill the hole in your heart, but I hope that the knowledge that you are receiving love and thoughts from around the world brings you some comfort xReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 12, 2013
just came across your awesome blog and suddenly, this very sad post. i am so deeply sorry for your loss - i hope you get all the support you need through this difficult time, my thoughts are with you.ReplyDelete
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