Dina StanderSep 8, 20211 minSoft Time: the handmade shrouds of Dina StanderA remarkable conversation about the work and why of shrouding with documentary film maker Jan Sturman.
Dina StanderMar 12, 20210 minkvellingI wander out and bend into mercy, pushing away leaves to find a purple coyote amongst the detritus.
Dina StanderFeb 23, 20211 minSafe home Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~ 2/23/21... he was hanging something up on a wall, pounding a nail, laughing, he looked over his shoulder at the camera. There was a spark.
Dina StanderFeb 17, 20211 minOn Radical KinshipRadical kinship, acting from the heart of our relationship with all things, is the best way I know to wake myself from numbness.
Dina StanderDec 18, 20203 minA Solstice Ramble on Shadows and LossI 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...
Dina StanderSep 11, 20205 minAs Death Becomes UsA 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.
Dina StanderAug 17, 20201 minPoem: shout!sometimes I feel the weight of what is yet to come and instead of pushing it off I open my heart
Dina StanderAug 4, 20203 minWaiting for the Drought to Break There is nothing quite as exquisite as anticipating spine surgery. You know that you will wake up feeling like you got kicked by a horse.
Dina StanderApr 20, 20202 minPrayer to Bless the Earth Receiving Burials at Hart IslandMay each breath be a solace and may remembering bring a blessing.
Dina StanderApr 11, 20204 mincovid ~ 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.
Dina StanderApr 7, 202017 minDancing With the Bones: Distanced GrievingIt 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.
Dina StanderMar 25, 20204 minBy Donation/Pay As You CanI 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.
Dina StanderMar 23, 20202 minEach to their island... March 2020There 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.
Dina StanderFeb 27, 20207 minCompanioning 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
Dina StanderFeb 20, 20206 minA 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!
Dina StanderFeb 1, 20202 minClick ClackI go out into the cold, stand close to a tall oak and listen to it commune with the cosmos, feeling my smallness to the marrow of my bones.
Dina StanderDec 22, 20196 minSolstice Blues (then & now) I went looking in my archives for Solstice writing and offer this updated reflection on optimism and coping skills for dark times.
Dina StanderDec 14, 20197 minOn SufferingIn which Dina describes to a roundtable of religious colleagues how she (an atheist) makes sense of the human predicament...
Dina StanderMar 24, 20193 minThe 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