#stephenjenkinson

#Repost per credit from & the courtesy of @restless.raven ・・・ Feelings are Weather, not Architecture. A beautiful reminder by the Wise Stephen Jenkinson. #stephenjenkinson #diewise #orphanwisdom #wisewords #quotes #healing #restlessraven #medicinewalk https://www.instagram.com/p/B6MJp73nCB_/?igshid=2lyl9zyb6r90

#PDX friends I wanted to let you know that #StephenJenkinson (whom I’ve interviewed twice on the topics of death, the role of an artist and the making of human culture, will be in #Portland this weekend and tickets are still available. Via his website: . They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’ve become timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery, quixotic, with some swagger. What would you call such a thing? Nights of Grief & Mystery. . Part poetry, part lamentation, part book reading, part ribaldry, part concert, part lifting the mortal veil and learning the mysteries there...that’s what’s in store. The doors are pried at night’s end, and still many linger and can’t leave or won’t, and there is something like victory in the air, and a weary, luminous midnight rumour that, people heretofore unknown to each other, can still join for the sake of the young among them and for the world entrusted to them, and that the Mercies count us kin, and that wonder is the currency of the Gods. . Tickets: #linkinbio or >>> bit.ly/griefandmysterypdx . #orphanwisdom https://www.instagram.com/p/BpAaUqVng0o/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gqrsuqrw6svs

Stephen Jenkinson signed my Die Wise! But I have no idea what it says before 'and for what they'll ask.' Anyone? ••••• #StephenJenkinson #DieWise #decipher #handwriting #DeathSymposium #gooddeath #grief #loss #bereavenent #deathpositive #deathliteracy #deatheducation #toronto (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoFiIIvA_0k/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tjoa976bd1im

"The culture that gave me my education, my livelihood, and so on is dying...I'm not talking about the rivers being fouled although that's certainly a piece of it, or the air, you know. I'm not talking about the wretched economic spirals and the extravagant greed that has become a part of doing business and all of those things, they're all the signs, they're not the causes...so the challenge I give to the people that come to study with me is just as follows, if the culture is dying, then what is asked of you? And the only way to talk about that is to say, 'Well what if it's your mom, or your dad? If your dad is dying, what do you do? Do you get as far away as possible as you can from it.. so that quote "you don't die"? ..but you will die. So making distance from your dying father is not going to help you. It's not going to save you from anything. It's just going to make you dumber longer. What's asked of you is that you approach. You're terrified, you're enormously distraught. You don't know what to say or do, and still you must make your feet walk to his death bed. And, that's the obligation we have if the culture we have is dying. Our job is to be a faithful witness to what is happening. So, first order of business is to don't turn your head. Don't blink. Because someday someone much younger than you is going to need to know what it looked like in the early days when things started to turn real bad and it was irreversible."