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Death, Aging, Disability & Activism:
Keep making beauty and good trouble in this world in any way you are able.
Dina Stander
Aug 26, 20244 min read
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On Wayfinding, Embodiment, & Death's Door: a celebration of life
Sometimes, to find my way I go and do and risk.
Dina Stander
Jun 27, 20246 min read
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The Last Dance
Innocence and existence entwined in one last dance.
Dina Stander
Jul 17, 20233 min read
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Gently Down the Stream
photo by Noe Fornells @Unsplash Update from the Gently Down the Stream Department: I have been writing a lot of funerals... when I am...
Dina Stander
Apr 16, 20232 min read
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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.
Dina Stander
Sep 11, 20205 min read
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Prayer to Bless the Earth Receiving Burials at Hart Island
May each breath be a solace and may remembering bring a blessing.
Dina Stander
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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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.
Dina Stander
Apr 7, 202017 min read
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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.
Dina Stander
Mar 23, 20202 min read
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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
Dina Stander
Mar 23, 20193 min read
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Unspoken: from here to now
Another day at the office: gratitude for the unspoken. Here I am again, pointing out the existence of what is left unsaid. What is swept...
Dina Stander
May 13, 20183 min read
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