Metaphors are “pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system… is fundamentally metaphorical in nature” (Lakoff & Johnson, 2003, p. 3). Yet what part might fiction itself play toward healing a person bereaved? Even a constructivist psychological approach to loss might hesitate at outright ghost stories, […]
This three-part series is inspired by training in June 2023 as an end-of-life (EOL) doula with Henry Fersko-Weiss. Henry is a key pioneer of the modern death doula movement, with more than 20 years experience not only serving hundreds of people at their deathbeds, but also training thousands of people in EOL doula work, contributing […]
Deep in long retreat, on my favourite bench under the sheltering boughs of an oak, an inch-worm drops onto my arm. Such life seems miraculous: green thread of a body, delicate but dexterous, knowing red head negotiating through a forest of hairs. After appropriate, humblest reflection upon his beauty, upon our equality in sentience, I move […]
THE REVOLOCUTIONARY PATHETIC MOVEMENT 