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    Soft Time: the handmade shrouds of Dina Stander
    Dina Stander
    • Sep 8, 2021
    • 1 min

    Soft Time: the handmade shrouds of Dina Stander

    A remarkable conversation about the work and why of shrouding with documentary film maker Jan Sturman.
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    kvelling
    Dina Stander
    • Mar 12, 2021
    • 0 min

    kvelling

    I wander out and bend into mercy, pushing away leaves to find a purple coyote amongst the detritus.
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    Safe home Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~ 2/23/21
    Dina Stander
    • Feb 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    Safe 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.
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    On Radical Kinship
    Dina Stander
    • Feb 17, 2021
    • 1 min

    On Radical Kinship

    Radical kinship, acting from the heart of our relationship with all things, is the best way I know to wake myself from numbness.
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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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    poem: just asking
    Dina Stander
    • Nov 25, 2020
    • 1 min

    poem: just asking

    after ... when it is safe
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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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    Poem: shout!
    Dina Stander
    • Aug 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    Poem: shout!

    sometimes I feel the weight of what is yet to come and instead of pushing it off I open my heart
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    Waiting for the Drought to Break
    Dina Stander
    • Aug 4, 2020
    • 3 min

    Waiting 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.
    36 views0 comments
    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.
    290 views0 comments
    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.
    141 views0 comments
    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.
    829 views0 comments
    By Donation/Pay As You Can
    Dina Stander
    • Mar 25, 2020
    • 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.
    110 views0 comments
    Each to their island... March 2020
    Dina Stander
    • Mar 23, 2020
    • 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.
    64 views0 comments
    Companioning the Dying: say what?
    Dina Stander
    • Feb 27, 2020
    • 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
    1,857 views1 comment
    A Treatise on EOLDs and Sliding Fee Scales
    Dina Stander
    • Feb 20, 2020
    • 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!
    948 views0 comments
    Click Clack
    Dina Stander
    • Feb 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    Click Clack

    I 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.
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    Solstice Blues (then & now)
    Dina Stander
    • Dec 22, 2019
    • 6 min

    Solstice 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.
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    On Suffering
    Dina Stander
    • Dec 14, 2019
    • 7 min

    On Suffering

    In which Dina describes to a roundtable of religious colleagues how she (an atheist) makes sense of the human predicament...
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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
    85 views0 comments

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