Gently Down the Stream
photo by Noe Fornells @Unsplash Update from the Gently Down the Stream Department: I have been writing a lot of funerals... when I am...
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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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Dina Stander
- Feb 8, 2021
- 5 min
Considering VSED: voluntarily stopping eating & drinking
A curated selection of videos, information and resources about the decision and experience of VSED at end of life.
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Dina Stander
- Dec 30, 2020
- 3 min
Both/And Physics ~ Holding On & Letting Go
... and then figure out how I can best support the peculiar both/and physics of holding on ~ so you can let go.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Dina Stander
- Feb 26, 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
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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!
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Dina Stander
- Mar 23, 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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