ocean OVER sky: a Memoir of my year of Downside-Up Traumatic Loss & Spiritual Awakening
Book Foreword
There are some stories that do not just ask to be read—they ask to be felt. ocean OVER sky is such a story. It is not a book about loss. It is a book written from loss. It rises from the deepest waters of grief, where breath vanishes and time disintegrates, and it brings back with it something shimmering, something holy.
On January 1, 2007, Felice DuBois’s world was shattered in a moment that no mother, no daughter, no soul prepared for life on Earth could fathom enduring. The crash of Adam Air Flight 574 over the Makassar Strait claimed the lives of her two daughters and her father. What followed was not a descent, but a dismemberment—of identity, of faith, of sanity. And yet, what we hold in our hands now is not only the record of that devastation, but the living testament of a soul remade.
This is not a linear memoir. It is a mosaic, stitched from memory, mystery, and miraculous encounters with the Divine. Felice leads us through her “downside-up” year—a year that began in death and gradually spiraled into something akin to rebirth. With rare honesty and unflinching voice, she invites us into the abyss and shows us how, even there, light can arrive. Often unbidden. Always sacred.
There is a place inside this book for every reader who has suffered a grief they thought they could not survive. But this book is not only for the grieving. It is for the awakening. It is for those standing at the threshold between the life they imagined and the life they were given, wondering if their broken heart might somehow become a doorway.
In ocean OVER sky, Felice DuBois does what only true spiritual memoirists can: she turns personal catastrophe into collective medicine. Her words echo with the prayers of the bereaved, the gasps of the spiritually reborn, and the silent knowing of those who have touched eternity and come back with stories to tell.
This is one such story. And it will change you.
Book Foreword
There are some stories that do not just ask to be read—they ask to be felt. ocean OVER sky is such a story. It is not a book about loss. It is a book written from loss. It rises from the deepest waters of grief, where breath vanishes and time disintegrates, and it brings back with it something shimmering, something holy.
On January 1, 2007, Felice DuBois’s world was shattered in a moment that no mother, no daughter, no soul prepared for life on Earth could fathom enduring. The crash of Adam Air Flight 574 over the Makassar Strait claimed the lives of her two daughters and her father. What followed was not a descent, but a dismemberment—of identity, of faith, of sanity. And yet, what we hold in our hands now is not only the record of that devastation, but the living testament of a soul remade.
This is not a linear memoir. It is a mosaic, stitched from memory, mystery, and miraculous encounters with the Divine. Felice leads us through her “downside-up” year—a year that began in death and gradually spiraled into something akin to rebirth. With rare honesty and unflinching voice, she invites us into the abyss and shows us how, even there, light can arrive. Often unbidden. Always sacred.
There is a place inside this book for every reader who has suffered a grief they thought they could not survive. But this book is not only for the grieving. It is for the awakening. It is for those standing at the threshold between the life they imagined and the life they were given, wondering if their broken heart might somehow become a doorway.
In ocean OVER sky, Felice DuBois does what only true spiritual memoirists can: she turns personal catastrophe into collective medicine. Her words echo with the prayers of the bereaved, the gasps of the spiritually reborn, and the silent knowing of those who have touched eternity and come back with stories to tell.
This is one such story. And it will change you.
Book Foreword
There are some stories that do not just ask to be read—they ask to be felt. ocean OVER sky is such a story. It is not a book about loss. It is a book written from loss. It rises from the deepest waters of grief, where breath vanishes and time disintegrates, and it brings back with it something shimmering, something holy.
On January 1, 2007, Felice DuBois’s world was shattered in a moment that no mother, no daughter, no soul prepared for life on Earth could fathom enduring. The crash of Adam Air Flight 574 over the Makassar Strait claimed the lives of her two daughters and her father. What followed was not a descent, but a dismemberment—of identity, of faith, of sanity. And yet, what we hold in our hands now is not only the record of that devastation, but the living testament of a soul remade.
This is not a linear memoir. It is a mosaic, stitched from memory, mystery, and miraculous encounters with the Divine. Felice leads us through her “downside-up” year—a year that began in death and gradually spiraled into something akin to rebirth. With rare honesty and unflinching voice, she invites us into the abyss and shows us how, even there, light can arrive. Often unbidden. Always sacred.
There is a place inside this book for every reader who has suffered a grief they thought they could not survive. But this book is not only for the grieving. It is for the awakening. It is for those standing at the threshold between the life they imagined and the life they were given, wondering if their broken heart might somehow become a doorway.
In ocean OVER sky, Felice DuBois does what only true spiritual memoirists can: she turns personal catastrophe into collective medicine. Her words echo with the prayers of the bereaved, the gasps of the spiritually reborn, and the silent knowing of those who have touched eternity and come back with stories to tell.
This is one such story. And it will change you.
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