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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveHappy July 4th! Every week, it’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us to 2005: the moment Page Hodel encountered Madalene Rodriguez and fell “instantly, dizzyingly in love with her.”…
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Yarauvi: A Cemetery in the Salt Sea
Miro Rivera Architects have plans to build a culturally inclusive cemetery in the Dead SeaIn 2013, the Texas based Miro Rivera Architects (MRI) presented their design for a cemetery in the Dead Sea. The practice presented the cemetery as “Yarauvi” and refers to the structure as a necropolis rather than a cemetery — and it only takes one look at the design’s hefty nod to Greek architecture to understand…
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“The Last Man“
Author Mary Shelley speculates on the end of mankind from an incurable plagueKnown widely as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley horrified us with her notorious monster brought to life with more humanity than we care to admit. She wrote much more than Frankenstein, however, and her later, lesser-known novel The Last Man (1826) explores similar thematic concerns, though from a vastly different perspective. The nightmarish story…
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We All Hope Death Will Never Approach
It’s a funny sort of universal wishful thinkingRead more from “Laughter is Medicine” here.
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Traditional Inheritance and Burial Rites of the Maasai People
Traditional practices of ‘The Father’s Chest’ and Predator Burials in Maasai cultureFor the Maasai people, death does not traditionally hold any secrets of the afterlife. Once an individual has passed, their journey has ended. All of their possessions and any of their sins are transferred to the loved ones who survive them. In this way, the memory of those who have been lost can be seen…
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Who Deserves the Right of a Burial with Dignity?
Recent discoveries of mass graves in Texas of undocumented migrants open up the discussion on who deserves to be buried with respect and dignityIn a small town near Corpus Christi in Texas, Falfurrias, anthropologists and student assistants have discovered several mass graves in the last couple of weeks. The occupants of these mass graves are hundreds of undocumented migrants. The methods of burial rang from trash bags to shopping bags, and from body bags to nothing at all.…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveRemembering Summer Days! Every week, it’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us to 2005: the moment Page Hodel encountered Madalene Rodriguez and fell “instantly, dizzyingly in love with her.”…
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The Busting Cancer Project
Australian women and The GroundSwell Project launch an intimate, powerful art workshop for cancer awarenessThe Busting Cancer project is a unique arts workshop for breast cancer survivors in Western Sydney, Australia. The project began almost five years ago and is the brainchild of Australian artists Cassandra Hard-Laurie and Niki Read. The two women collaborated with local non-profit The GroundSwell Project to form the arts workshop, which creates “unique body…
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