Blog

“We live so we know how to die, and we die to live (Hunter-Ripper).” While death is the inevitability of humanity, not all cultures view this life transition with the same reverence. It becomes quickly obvious non-Native society is most often terrified of death. The constant messaging of sanitize, shelter and protect from our own humanity is blatantly obvious in the United States, for example. Everything from the medical system to advertising says, “avoid getting old” at all

Grief has a spiraling presence; sometimes it is so in our face we can taste it. Other times the moon's rays are leading us up the mountain.

External expectations and internal dialogue influenced by these expectations often become the source of our sorrow.

A short poem on how to accept love and transmute pain.