Sadness and joy and gratitude in equal measure. Thank you, Bobby, for facilitating an experience of grief that didn’t ask me to label emotion one way or another.

In this meditation, you’ll build an altar for the ancestors — a space outside of time and space — and then you’ll receive their blessings in return.

Surrender is an act of strength, not weakness. It’s about having the courage to say, This is what’s happening. This is what is real right now. And I’m going to meet it as it is, not as I wish it were.

By observing other death cultures, we realize that our relationship to death is culturally-relative and that there’s room to explore.