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Dina Stander
- Apr 16
- 2 min
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, 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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Dina Stander
- Apr 30, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
tikkun olam ~ mending the world
Resolve obstacles ~ reduce suffering. In this way the world is mended.
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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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Dina Stander
- Mar 7, 2021
- 5 min
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, 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 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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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
- Dec 17, 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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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
- 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.
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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.
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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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