A clear piece of insight, thank you. It was an enormous relief when my father died, on many levels, but I was not 12 so had to work and struggle through so many layers of strong, conflicting emotions. This is a toast to the human condition, mixed and rich.
So true - we’ve forgotten why grieving together is sometimes so important, and that funerals can enable this. Thanks for this. Your writing is very powerful.
Thank you Cindy. Funeral ritual has been a centrepiece in my family and life. Those moments of binding together as family and friends sticks. Thank you. Always. For what you're sharing.
Cindy, your writing churns my emotions in many raw ways………making me wish I’d hugged you more when I first met you in your early twenties. Hey the good news is……your dear kids are carrying the name Littlefair into the future!
OK this is weird because I haven’t even read the whole article yet and I love your writing 100%, but I was talking to a shaman the other day a woman who it train and being a shaman and she said not having funerals is really messing up the spirits of people they can’t crossover properly without the funeral!!!
Another beautiful, raw, honest piece. Thanks for sharing it with us, Cindy 🙏
Im with this one.mourning a life IS celebrating one.its the real time experience ,at least for me.
A clear piece of insight, thank you. It was an enormous relief when my father died, on many levels, but I was not 12 so had to work and struggle through so many layers of strong, conflicting emotions. This is a toast to the human condition, mixed and rich.
As usual a very pithy and enjoyable story of your life
holy smokes, what a perspective and so beautifully conveyed
So true - we’ve forgotten why grieving together is sometimes so important, and that funerals can enable this. Thanks for this. Your writing is very powerful.
W o w. You are one of my fave writers .
It's an honour to be a fave writer. Thanks, Cathy.
Thank you for writing this. I also mourn the loss of funerals.
Thank you Cindy. Funeral ritual has been a centrepiece in my family and life. Those moments of binding together as family and friends sticks. Thank you. Always. For what you're sharing.
Cindy, your writing churns my emotions in many raw ways………making me wish I’d hugged you more when I first met you in your early twenties. Hey the good news is……your dear kids are carrying the name Littlefair into the future!
The kids are carrying the name, absolutely, and I have many warm memories of my time together with you, no need to think it was in any way deficient.
Brava. I, too, 'love' funerals. And I love that, as a 12-year-old, you offered succor to your father.
For what it was worth! Thanks, Moira.
OK this is weird because I haven’t even read the whole article yet and I love your writing 100%, but I was talking to a shaman the other day a woman who it train and being a shaman and she said not having funerals is really messing up the spirits of people they can’t crossover properly without the funeral!!!