Jul 31, 2020 | Children, Death a Love Project, Grief and bereavement, Memorial, Remembering, Ritual
Oh I wish I had a tattoo! Even though my parents died before I even thought of having one, they would have been scandalised! If I had got one it’d have been by ex de Medici. She practised in Canberra. Now a celebrated artist with work in major collections, her work...
Sep 24, 2019 | Death a Love Project, Memorial, Remembering, Ritual
I recently published ‘Death, a love project, a guide to exploring the life in death and finding the way together.’ Feels like a good time to re-publish the post that started it all! I published this post back in April 2016 and the idea of ‘love...
Feb 8, 2019 | Memorial, Poetry, Remembering, Ritual
I took away three lessons for a great ceremony on Monday evening this week. Hundreds of people headed to the Exhibition Buildings after work. Ten years on the Victorian Government was holding a ceremony to honour the victims and survivors of the 2009 bushfires. Yes,...
Sep 6, 2016 | Memorial, Remembering, Vigil
by Jennifer Downs I spent a week with Jennifer Downs in Baltimore, Maryland in 2012. I was attending ‘home funeral’ training with Final Passages. An acupuncturist, Steiner educator and political activist, Jennifer’s tagline is ‘Wake up to your...
Apr 11, 2016 | Funeral options, Memorial, Remembering
All the sadness in loss. We can only experience it. And yet there’s also a pull to make sense of it. The journey to make loss meaningful can be painfully long. Somehow memorials play a role in this. Then as time passes, there’s something left, something to refer to,...
Jul 11, 2014 | Environment, Memorial, Remembering
I recently spent time at Brunswick Heads, a little NSW town with beachside streets, and a wonderful breakwater. Bruns for short. Bruns is a place people are fond of. and you see that in memorials placed at ground and eye level. A few memorials At the gate of the...
