Andrea Gibson is a messenger from the Divine and her words are evidence of pure love.
This is just one book of several – read them all, as soon as you can.

This book explores three distinct possibilities… only one of them preferred, all of them painful. It’s a choice. It’s our choice.

I appreciate how the author presents these potential outcomes clearly, honestly and without the malice that I find dominates our current literary choices about what the future just might look like.

How would you live your life if you acknowledged that it could end at any moment? You do know it can end at any moment, yes? There’s no guarantee we’ll reach specific milestones… Even if we have come to believe there must be. This story, or should I say these stories, of Brás’s life shows us what it would look like if life ended at different moments – all unexpected, all a surprise.

Each time I read it, it seems I come away with a new understanding of “the long breath of grief” that we all experience as part of the strong individualism that defines existence in this time.

Francis Weller speaks truth about the place of grief in our lives. He gives voice to our silent knowing that “grief is an act of protest”. He provides a guide that will bring us through the shadowy parts that surround us in our world today, so we can find each other as we walk through the “Long Dark” back to belonging, back to community.

You can find out more about Francis Weller at https://www.francisweller.net

It is a moral, political, and spiritual obligation all people owe their ancestors and their heirs. Die Wise dreams such a dream and plots such an uprising. How we die, how we care for dying people, and how we carry our dead: This work makes our capacity for a village-mindedness – or breaks it.