Episode Notes

Mikaela Brewer brings home another episode of Braving the Waves.

This week’s poem welcomes us into a family during the years-long process of writing a will, which in turn, requires a hovering awareness of death. This family’s experience asks us to redefine what hovering means, and how we choose to greet something that we’ve been taught to fear or feel uncomfortable about. It emphasizes the need to make space for conversations, thoughts, feelings, and emotions well in advance of death. 

Here is a snippet of My Family Writes a Will:

Though seemingly dark, body-shaped coffins, shadows are, rather, a place for life’s quiet, rebirth, rest, and growth because, if we love death thoroughly, they will say: by the love you’ve left, I’m deeply impressed, by not fearing me, I offer you the sea, or perhaps a tree, or anywhere else you wish to be free

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