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This past weekend, I gathered with local community to honor the life and mourn the passing of the daughter of a close friend. I was…
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I am mourning the loss of my beloved friend Waverly Fitzgerald, who died Friday night after living with cancer for several months. I am not…
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Craig was staying with me when the call came that Nora had died. Sundown in the West, gibbous moonrise in the East. We cupped seawater…
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Last night I went up the hill just before dusk to a friend’s house, where we spent a couple of hours in her fragrant wood-fired…
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Last Sunday, I received the news that a circle-sister and good friend of 20+ years had passed away on Solstice night. I was prepared, as…
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(Joanna’s note: I originally wrote this piece in 1991, and it was first published in The Beltane Papers in October 1992. The “Helen” in this…
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(As my friend Nora’s dying process extends longer than we ever thought it would, with days becoming weeks and flowing into months, those of us…
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There has been a great outpouring of love and support this past week for Nora Cedarwind Young on Facebook and elsewhere, and for me, as I share my experience of…
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My beloved friend and mermaid sister Nora Cedarwind Young is terminally ill. We don’t know how much time she has left. I am putting most…
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Yesterday was the first anniversary of my father’s passing. Nora, Craig, and I went for a walk in the deep woods where he used to…