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    How to Leave the Hospital...
    Dina Stander
    • Dec 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    How to Leave the Hospital...

    ... when getting home feels like a matter of life and death.
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    A Solstice Ramble on Shadows and Loss
    Dina Stander
    • Dec 18, 2020
    • 3 min

    A Solstice Ramble on Shadows and Loss

    I am watching a winter sunset and welcoming the evening after a big snow. More than a foot fell. The woods are quiet. I woke up with my...
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    As Death Becomes Us
    Dina Stander
    • Sep 11, 2020
    • 5 min

    As Death Becomes Us

    A meditation about our end-of-life is not the same as being our own Endling. Death is a trickster in traveling shoes. We do our best.
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    Prayer to Bless the Earth Receiving Burials at Hart Island
    Dina Stander
    • Apr 20, 2020
    • 2 min

    Prayer to Bless the Earth Receiving Burials at Hart Island

    May each breath be a solace and may remembering bring a blessing.
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    covid ~ anguish ~ 'last touch'
    Dina Stander
    • Apr 11, 2020
    • 4 min

    covid ~ anguish ~ 'last touch'

    How to reach for connection when devices can't 'hit the spot'... and you're trying to convey a life time of love through a puny phone.
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    Dancing With the Bones: Distanced Grieving
    Dina Stander
    • Apr 7, 2020
    • 17 min

    Dancing With the Bones: Distanced Grieving

    It is ok not to be ok. We are here to companion distanced grieving because human beings are in crisis... so I took my question to the trees.
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