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Listening to Caroline Lucas talk about death, I'm struck by the fact that nowhere in the conversation did she refer to the death phobia and grief illiteracy that pervades the airwaves. I'm not adverse to the training of more doulas but will it change our relationship to death?

So proud of daughter #2. She did her first Crown Court case today as a 2nd six pupil barrister. In terms of criminal work, she's been flat out since the beginning of the month. By all accounts, there are simply not enough barristers to deal with the volume of work.

It's been another one of those days that I'll be glad to put behind me. I've only got three weeks until I leave my current gig and, frankly, it can't come soon enough.

Reading about the practice of 'slow medicine' makes me wonder if something similar could be carved out the pillars of time recording, email wars and obsessive billing that has become the beacon for all those lawyers in private practice.

Bryan Charnley is one of my favourite artists but he was so troubled and his mind was in serious decline when he painted these pictures youtu.be/A9gYgHkizSI?si… /PS. I'm a big fan of Blind Dweller on YouTube

I wish #AI would hurry up and (finally) make me redundant.

I come back to this poem so very often:

“Mankind owns four things
That are no good at sea:
Rudder, anchor, oars,
And the fear of going down.”
― Antonio Machado

I need to create a list of the books I own on #grief , #death , #die_wise , endings and limits. I don't want to start a book club but I do want to write about the authors who've had the most impact on me. When I say 'impact', I mean those who've forever changed my worldview.

This week on our podcast, we return to our adaptation of our virtual reality experience, “Sanctuaries of Silence.” Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton is our guide as we embark into the Hoh Rain Forest, one of the quietest places in North America. emergencemagazine.org/podcast/

I'm sick to death of reading one victory story after another. What about those people who never made it? Who speaks for or even sees them?

Long gone of days of a natural death, i.e it's my time to die. Big Pharma has too much at stake (now) to allow that to happen, however harsh or jarring this sounds.

Liz Truss: words fail me for once!

My next book. #death #grief #endings

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LinkedIn is so inward facing. In fact, you'd think nothing else existed outside its blistering vacuum of hyperbole, faux lament and one sales pitch after another.

Out with the hounds

'Dying people are suffering a torment we once thought would only come to those in the hour of their death. Now the hour of death is months long, sometimes longer.' -- Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

Follow Kenton Cool. He's a legend and don't try to talk me down.

This is the only other event that Stephen Jenkinson is doing in the UK this year. I hope to see you there all you Devon folk orphanwisdom.com/event/prayer_t…