I put together a short slideshow of still images from a video taped conversation between myself (in my Last Dance Shrouds hat) and...

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

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

In which a hospital stay reveals a new and hard earned evolution of emotional intelligence. We must heal the healers.

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.

Even in hospital settings our rituals after last breath can be tuned to be in harmony with simple and available resources, bringing solace.

... 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...

I've recorded one of the essays that you'll find in my upcoming book: Housewife Blues: dispatches from the garden of broken things I gave...

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.

I am not a person who harbors fears or overthinks risks. I have been known to throw caution to the winds. I have stepped off the edge and...