Birth, Breath, and Death: Meditations on Motherhood, Chaplaincy, and Life as a Doula

We may work with the dying, or the other side, with birth and the young, incarnation and excarnation, involution and evolution, invocation and evocation.

When my mother’s ashes came back from the crematorium, my family spent a couple of days staring at the plastic box that held them. Then we took the box to the old cast iron bridge across the Tamar River. Both bridge and river had been continual companions to her life. I undid a surprising number of layers and poured the ashes into the water below.

Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death