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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
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
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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Dina Stander
Feb 26, 20207 min read
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, 20206 min read
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
Dec 14, 20197 min read
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, 20193 min read
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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