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
- Jan 31, 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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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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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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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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