Grief House - Portals

Feb 23 2025 84 ep. 43 mins 3
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An ongoing exploration of the complexity of being human, through monthly conversations about trust, loss, feelings and perspective.

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Violet Is Not Waking Up, What Happens Next?

Feb 23 2025 45 mins  
In this special episode I talk with Serena Trexler about her experiences as a death care worker, death rights advocate and green death/human composting engineer. We Discuss Serena's personal relationship with the dead and their bodies (curious, honored to know them, not afraid) in contrast to many people's relationship with the dead (closed off, hopeful they won't be near, quite af

Webs

Feb 10 2025 42 mins  
In this episode Sascha and I talk about webs. We ponder the way they are spun from hunger and instinct. How hope weaves a web, how death works in the weaving. We consider the web from a spider's perspective - how they never see the full scope of their work. We wonder about how we might weave well, where we are. We talk about our mothers and our fathers - the webs they wove for us,

(No True) Beginnings

Jan 20 2025 54 mins  
In this episode, Sascha and I try to put our fingers on the ache inside beginnings. We wonder about the way life grows out of death, how joy grows alongside sorrow, and whether anything ever really starts for the first time. In an act of cunning metaphor, we take a while to get rolling with this episode. Eventually, inside our large meandering, we make a circle that comes round in

We'll Die Soon (therefore) Look For Miracles

Dec 31 2024 49 mins  
In this episode Sascha and I contemplate miracles, reality and how the two things intersect. We discuss: my father's death and the dog miracles that came in its wake, the delusion/magic weaving Sascha's mother practiced in her life, what sky diving might teach us about the nature of reality, how one might work at miracles, whether a tendency toward miracles can me spread, caught or

Prayer For Relief with Krystle May Statler

Dec 20 2024 47 mins  
In this episode Sascha and I talk with Poet (And Grief House board member and collaborator) Krystle May Statler about her brother BJ and her life with and without him since his murder in 2019 by the Inglewood police. We consider what it means to suffer deep injury that can't be explained or relieved, how complicated grief can lead to isolation and the way poetry might help weave a

I Trust Us

Nov 24 2024 55 mins  
In this special episode Sascha sits down and talks with Jojo Donovan about trust and invitations. Jojo is good and wise and kind and perfect, as we find her always. Sascha (who is also good and kind and wise and perfect) feels lucky to be in a circle with jojo and the magic she pulls. You can follow Jojo's work online at sevenstonestarot.com; on Substack at sevenstonestarot.substac

Open Invitation

Nov 10 2024 48 mins  
In this episode Sascha and I talk about how it feels to extend and be offered open invitations. We agree that, from both directions, it is simply the best. We try to figure out what makes it possible to do this glorious, simple thing; consider examples from our lives, discuss our siblings, our recent trip to see my family in Mexico, my remarkable Aunt Pipis, and the difficult polit

Capacity for Love

Oct 15 2024 51 mins  
In this episode Sascha and I talk with Heather Dorfman about love, grief, and interconnection. Heather tells us how standing trees send water and nutrients to their fallen family and what that might look like in a thriving human ecosystem. Sascha and I feel amazed at this news, and overjoyed. We reflect on motherhood, mycelium, and how networks of all kinds grow and grieve and grow

Solving For Love

Sep 30 2024 51 mins  
In this episode Sascha and I discuss long-term relationships, letting go and staying connected, distance and persistence. We explore the idea of our selves as stacking dolls and strata of earth, contemplate forever, and devote ourselves to notebooks filled with unsolved equations where love is a known that can't be zeroed out.

Villain

Aug 30 2024 32 mins  
In this short episode we explore the roles, burdens and responsibilities of heroes, villains and victims. Sascha tells me I'm not the villain I write myself as in the stories in my head, and I begin to believe her.