Feb 8, 2019 | Remembering, Ritual
Hundreds of people headed to the Exhibition Buildings on Monday evening this week. Ten years on the Victorian Government was holding a ceremony to honour the victims and survivors of the 2009 bushfires. I took away three lessons for a great ceremony. Yes, as with the...
Sep 6, 2016 | Having a vigil and laying out the body, Memorial, Remembering
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 love and 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...
Feb 13, 2015 | Green funeral, Having a vigil and laying out the body, Home funeral, Remembering
In this post I use the word vigil, but not in a religious sense. I’ve made vigil the topic for the Sustainable Funeral event at this year’s Sustainable Living Festival (SLF) event. I think of a vigil as a continuous, intimate thread of care. Some want to...
Jul 11, 2014 | 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...
