Tending to Endings (eight)
This week I am with my dad and sisters in Hawaii where we are holding a second Celebration of Life for my mom for her Maui friends in a place she considered, as my aunt Carol says, holy ground.
Rather than skip a posting, I figured it was a good opportunity to share a few recent finds by others who are paying attention to endings.
The first two come from a recent issue of Brainpickings, a gorgeous collection of wisdom curated by Maria Popova each week. The link includes both a text and audio version of the poem Cold Solace by Anna Belle Kaufman. [90 sec]
And then below is a Ted Talk by philosopher, writer and comedian Emily Levine that she gave after she was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. [16 min]
Frank Ostaseki began the Zen Hospice Project in 1987, the first Zen Buddhist hospice center in America. Inviting the Wisdom of Death into Life [23 min.]
In this episode of On Being, Krista Tippet and poet and editor Christian Wiman discuss a variety of topics related to death including living with a terminal diagnosis. [52 min]
Finally, on the plane over here I listened to an episode of the new podcast Poetry Unbound about a poem by Marie Howe, My Mother’s Body. [8 min]
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I look forward to returning with a regularTending to Endings on February 28.
Have a lovely week,
Laura
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