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Winter Solstice Quilt’ by Karen Arends, featuring a white circular, spiraling sun at the center split into four quadrants, each with bold radiating points in burgundy, magenta, gold, and cream. The quilt is bordered by green panels and multicolored diagonal stripes, evoking warmth, light, and the return of the Sun

Winter Solstice: The Magic of Yule

By Karen Arends, Minister of Metaphysics and Master Lif...

This close-up of a section of the Altar features a standing white card with a quote from Robin Wall Kimmerer that reads, “Our elders say ceremonies are the way we remember to remember.” Underneath the card is a colorful placemat and behind it is a blurred green outdoor background seen through a window.

Community Creators Series: Ceremonies that Re-member Us

by Holly J. Pruett, Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant

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A tapestry of hope: images and messages from participants who gathered in an online community vigil to grieve, reflect, and imagine the world to come during the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Community Creators Series: Marking Life Together - The Transformative Power of Community Ceremony

By Karla Combres

(Originally published on www.karlaco...

Community Creators Series: Remembrance Ceremony Around the Holidays

By Benjamin Martin, Executive Director, NTI

Remembr...

Gathering Around the Fire: Reclaiming Ancestral Gestures

By Brooke Arnold-Rochette

It’s easy to sli

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Ashes to ...

by Lisa Hartley

"Oh no!" my friend Helene shouts, a lo...

Celebrating a Career Journey

by Nicole Sammut

There are lots of options that exist...

Saving the Story

~ by Christina Baldwin

When I began teaching journal ...

Dying Wish: a documentary with an enduring message

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Something to Do After a Suicide Death

(Art by Tina Lewis. Natural Transitions Magazine Vol ...

Five friends, smiling and dressed in winter clothes, gather behind a memorial bench in a cemetery, backlit by the sun. The bench has an inlaid ceramic tile with an illustration of a woman riding her bike with her hands in the air. The bench is inscribed with the words “Liberty and Justice for All” with the name Marcy A. Westerling and the dates 1959 to 2015. Also inscribed but partially obscured is the name of her husband Michael with the date 1951.

Marcy’s Community Deathcare Legacy: The Benefits of Being Burdened

On the one-year cancerversary of her Stage 4 diagnosis,...

Follow Your Bliss

by Lenny Scovel

Joseph Campbell once wrote, “follow y...

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