by admin | Mar 14, 2026 | Deathcare, Funerals, Rites of passage
Ah, grief, I should not treat you like a homeless dog who comes to the back door for a crust, for a meatless bone. I should trust you. I should coax you into the house and give you your own corner, a worn mat to lie on, your own water dish. You think I don’t know...
by admin | Dec 16, 2024 | Deathcare, Funerals, Rites of passage
It’s been three years since I started practicing as a funeral celebrant. I actually can’t quite believe it. If someone had said to me ten years ago that I would be regularly standing up in front of a room full of people and guiding them through a major rite of passage...
by admin | Nov 8, 2023 | Deathcare, Funerals, Rites of passage
As we in the Northern hemisphere find ourselves in the descent towards darker days, heading down into Samhain1, it’s become a tradition of sorts that I spend some time contemplating this idea of the thinning of the veil between the worlds. Most of us are familiar...
by admin | Oct 31, 2022 | Deathcare, Folklore, Funerals
Some of you will have heard me say this before and so I apologise for repeating myself, but every year at Samhain I find myself sitting-with the premise of the veil between the worlds and each year I can’t help but feel like there’s more to it. The idea that...
