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Sep 11
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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Dancing With the Bones: Distanced Grieving

Dina Stander

Apr 7
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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Dina Stander

Mar 25
4 min

By Donation/Pay As You Can

I made a decision today, based on my commitment to radical kinship. From now on my services are offered for a pay-what-you-can donation.

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Dina Stander

Mar 23
2 min

Each to their island... March 2020

There is no normal to retreat to. I stop, sit, take a breath and let it go. Wiggle the toes, accept not knowing, do my best and be here now.

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Dina Stander

Feb 27
7 min

Companioning the Dying: say what?

However you embrace or wrastle with your own mortality, companioning the dying will bring you (as my own old dead dad would say) toe to toe

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A Treatise on EOLDs and Sliding Fee Scales

Dina Stander

Feb 20
6 min

A Treatise on EOLDs and Sliding Fee Scales

In a society that commodifies everything, alternative paradigms will sometimes be considered radical. Welcome to my world, Doula friends!

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The Opportune Moment and the Phone of the Wind:

Dina Stander

Mar 24, 2019
3 min

The Opportune Moment and the Phone of the Wind:

There is a deep need many people have to keep the ordinary conversation of life going, even though the person they have this conversation wi

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As Death Becomes Us

Dancing With the Bones: Distanced Grieving

By Donation/Pay As You Can

Each to their island... March 2020

Companioning the Dying: say what?

A Treatise on EOLDs and Sliding Fee Scales

The Opportune Moment and the Phone of the Wind: