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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
Jan 4, 20213 min read
A Bedside Ritual for Saying Goodbye After Last Breath
Even in hospital settings our rituals after last breath can be tuned to be in harmony with simple and available resources, bringing solace.
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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
Dec 12, 20201 min read
Tree Season
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...
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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
Jul 28, 20203 min read
We are all well enough...
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...
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Dina Stander
Apr 25, 20201 min read
poem: all my might
all my might the middle daughter comes to visit she rakes leaves in the yard while I sit nearby but safely far away and we chat about...
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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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Dina Stander
Apr 11, 20204 min read
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, 202017 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20202 min read
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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