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What are Crystal Singing Bowls? (Interview)
Sounds of solaceCandace Keach is the artistic director of the Spiral Sound of Crystal Bowls, a performance group which creates a soothing auditory and visual immersion experience through the playing of symmetrically arranged, vibrating crystal bowls. Antal: Thanks for speaking with us, Candace. Can you tell us a little about what Spiral Sounds of Crystal Bowls does?…
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“Man’s Search for Meaning”
The Holocaust memoir takes a riveting look into the psychology of death camp prisoners and guardsThrough Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl offers a compelling glimpse into the human psyche. The Doctor of psychiatry has seen the full span of human nature, losing his parents, brother and pregnant wife to Nazi death camps, and spending three years laboring in four different camps himself. Unlike many memoirs of the atrocities…
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“‘Geez, I hope I don’t die.’ I wonder how many times a day we think that?”
George Carlin on death, dying, and dealing with deathThe late, legendary comedian discusses death as a reality and as a metaphor in this classic stand-up video. (Due to language, this video may not be appropriate for children under 18.)
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The Spiritual Celebration of the Summer Solstice
Nature religion traditions honor the longest day and shortest night of the year with reflection on the life cycleYesterday was the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, the shortest night, and the point in the year when our days gradually become shorter and our nights longer. For cultures that revere nature, the Solstice calls for a celebration. Some communities or families celebrate with a small private event, and some put on…
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Commemorating one of the gravest end-of-life issues our world faces
The National AIDS Memorial Grove commemorates our culture’s epic struggleSan Francisco Representative Nancy Pelosi, who famously said in 1987 that she came to Congress to help fight AIDS, was honored in San Francisco in April. She joined the Community Volunteer Workday at the National AIDS Memorial Grove to commemorate her twenty-fifth year in the U.S. House of Representatives. Despite critics back in the day,…
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“Early Elegy: Headmistress”
Claudia Emerson unites comedy and tragedy in her short poem to form one perfect wholeThere are what could be termed “better” poems about death by Claudia Emerson, but “Early Elegy: Headmistress” intrigued me so much when I first read it that I chose to write about it this week. The poem is short, only eight lines long, but it conveys so much of its subject’s personality in that octet that…
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Loss of a Famous Father
Kate Rothko Prizel still mourns the loss of her father forty years after his famous suicide.After losing her father, the painter Mark Rothko, to suicide and her mother to cardiovascular disease shortly after, the nineteen-year-old Kate Rothko Prizel thought she and her then-six-year-old brother would be fine. They were in the midst of the New York art world in the 1970’s, and she couldn’t imagine a better place to grow…
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Kayak Morning
a memoir on navigating grief through meditation… and kayaking.In his 2010 memoir, Making Toast, Roger Rosenblatt tells his story about loss after losing his daughter, Amy, unexpectedly. With a series of snippets similar to diary entries, Rosenblatt detailed his struggle with the aftermath and how he coped by helping take care of his grandchildren. Much like this first attempt to describe his experience,…
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