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 20, 2024 | Funerals, Rites of passage, Workshops
Hello dear hearts, I’m transmitting this from cycle day 22 and the ambiguity of wanting to be seen, whilst also wanting to hide. Such is the paradox of these early luteal days in my cycle. I’d tried to write this all of last week, but something was stuck in me....
by admin | Jan 17, 2024 | Folklore, Queering, Rites of passage
“And again at New Year, when the 12 strokes sound and we make our resolutions ‘I will be good; turn over a new leaf; be made anew’ – we are embodying, even if we do not know it, or perhaps being embodied by, the myth of eternal return; the periodic destruction...
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 | Mar 10, 2023 | Menstruation, Queering, Rites of passage
We were cycling late last Saturday night and I’d left the house ill-prepared. My hands stung sharply with the cold; the wind whipping my knuckles as we trundled up the hill. ‘Why the fuck didn’t I bring my gloves?’ I shouted, shaking my raw...
