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Dina Stander
Jun 276 min read
On Wayfinding, Embodiment, & Death's Door: a celebration of life
Sometimes, to find my way I go and do and risk.
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Dina Stander
May 13, 20233 min read
Turning Soil
Friendship between women busy raising children is whole-cloth woven from interrupted conversations sewn together with threads of goodwill...
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Dina Stander
Apr 16, 20232 min read
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
Sep 7, 20211 min read
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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Dina Stander
Apr 30, 20215 min read
Visiting the Phone of the Wind in Provincetown
A wind phone booth is one of those magical places that, without fail, is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
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Dina Stander
Apr 21, 20211 min read
tikkun olam ~ mending the world
Resolve obstacles ~ reduce suffering. In this way the world is mended.
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Dina Stander
Mar 12, 20210 min read
kvelling
I wander out and bend into mercy, pushing away leaves to find a purple coyote amongst the detritus.
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Dina Stander
Mar 7, 20215 min read
Tender Bits
Some things just cannot be fixed. The trick is finding a way to let off the steam, learning to heal without a cure.
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Dina Stander
Feb 23, 20211 min read
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 17, 20211 min read
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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Dina Stander
Feb 8, 20215 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20205 min read
How to Leave the Hospital...
... when getting home feels like a matter of life and death.
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Dina Stander
Dec 17, 20203 min read
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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Dina Stander
Sep 11, 20205 min read
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, 20201 min read
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
Aug 4, 20203 min read
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.
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Dina Stander
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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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