one death doula's take on medical aid in dying

Keep making beauty and good trouble in this world in any way you are able.

Sometimes, to find my way I go and do and risk.

Friendship between women busy raising children is whole-cloth woven from interrupted conversations sewn together with threads of goodwill...

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A remarkable conversation about the work and why of shrouding with documentary film maker Jan Sturman.

A wind phone booth is one of those magical places that, without fail, is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

Resolve obstacles ~ reduce suffering. In this way the world is mended.

I wander out and bend into mercy, pushing away leaves to find a purple coyote amongst the detritus.

Some things just cannot be fixed. The trick is finding a way to let off the steam, learning to heal without a cure.

... he was hanging something up on a wall, pounding a nail, laughing, he looked over his shoulder at the camera. There was a spark.

Radical kinship, acting from the heart of our relationship with all things, is the best way I know to wake myself from numbness.

A curated selection of videos, information and resources about the decision and experience of VSED at end of life.

... and then figure out how I can best support the peculiar both/and physics of holding on ~ so you can let go.

... when getting home feels like a matter of life and death.

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...

after ... when it is safe

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.

sometimes I feel the weight of what is yet to come and instead of pushing it off I open my heart

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.