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Oct 2, 2020
"I must go there today --
Tomorrow the plum blossoms
Will scatter." --Ryokan
Trail of Light
This beautifully moving film features Aralyn Doiron, a delightful woman who has trained to be a Death Walker, someone who values a relationship with death and someone who values life. She suggests that it is only when we acknowledge that we are going to die one day, that we can truly start to live. The fact that many of us are separated from death is a disconnect from our humanity. She encourages having normal conversations about death, something we don't usually talk about, bringing death more into our lives in an enlivening way. Death teaches us about impermanence and about valuing what we have in the moment.
BE THE CHANGE
Answer for yourself the question, "If you could know what day you were going to die, would you want to know, and what would you do differently if you knew?
