All the tiny deaths that make up a well-lived life

All the tiny deaths that make up a well-lived life

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about death. All kinds of death. Yesterday my daughter went to an early Halloween party. She dressed in white and black, and wanted to be a skeleton underneath that. So I painted her face and chest – white for the bones,...
My father’s birthday

My father’s birthday

Today is my father’s birthday. He would have been 58. Instead, he passed away shortly after turning 53, of leukemia, which he got at the age of 49. Today is also a new moon. I’ve been learning about how the moon cycles affect us, and feeling very nourished...
20 things to know about death & grief

20 things to know about death & grief

Death is fecund and fertile, a space of giving way to the new, the bouyant, the growth of spring. Death is also tearing, rending and life shaking. Things to know about Death: 1. It may not look like you expect it to. 2. There’s the death that is obvious –...