on apocalypses
And we keep waking up every day, doing stuff, maybe doing more stuff, looking for the things that might comfort us, asking the world for meaning, and then we li...
Category: on Deathwork & Griefwork
a deathworker’s statement on Queen Elizabeth II’s passing
On this day, I acknowledge the grief of many while acknowledging the celebration by others. Such is the dichotomy that death presents to us, I suppose.
I want to love Pride month
I want accountability. I want change. I want rainbows that remind us to smile and recall how much we love each other, not rainbows that are held up in defiance ...
the sound of angry people
Anger is exhausting. Rage burns in us and sometimes we burn too. Rest where you can.
queer people deserve deathcare
We are always grieving someone else, angry at another loss, raging at the injustice that the most vulnerable of us are always facing.
this is not an obituary
Time is not really a flat circle; it does turn back on itself in an endless loop, but perhaps if we are lucky the loop is a spiral and we are getting somewhere ...