Jennifer Muldowney quotes Bob Dylan

Jennifer Muldowney is an event planner for memorials in the United States of America and Ireland and is currently partnered with the prestigious Frank E. Campbell - The Funeral Chapel in NYC as their in-house event planner. Jennifer is also notable as author of Say Farewell Your Way, Tedx speaker of ‘Grief as Unique as your Heartbeat’ and host of ‘The Glam Reaper Podcast’. Check out Muldowney Memorials (.com) to learn more. By Jennifer Muldowney Times they are a-changin’

Have you ever released butterflies at a funeral service?

We released a grouping of butterflies to signify our loss to the community at large in New York recently. We have all lost alot in this last year.

When you think about butterflies what do you think? • Some will say beauty • some will see fear (like me with a spider!) • some will think of nature • some happiness • some sadness • some of spirits

Like our opinion on the butterfly, we all have a different perspective on life, on loss, on love, on grief and on the spiritual world.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. But a transition takes place. Change. We don’t always like change. But change happens and it changes us irrevocably. There is nothing we can do about change. It happens with or without our say in the matter. Doubt me? Ask any elderly person you know.

As Bob Dylan said There is nothing so stable as change. His infamous song says : As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin’ And the first one now will later be last For the times they are a-changin’.

Butterflies are typically known to signify transition, creativity, freedom, love, renewal. Just when the caterpillar thought her world was over, she became a butterfly.

Life is all about perspective and it’s all about change and growth. What change can you embrace in your funeral home that can breathe life and growth into your community’s way of dealing with loss?