A way to celebrate me after my death

Écrit par Chloë Rain

Come to my funeral dressed as you
would for an autumn walk in the woods.

Arrive on your schedule; I give you permission
to be late, even without good cause.

If my day arrives when you had other plans, please
proceed with them instead. Celebrate me

there—keep dancing. Tend your gardens. Live
well. Don’t stop. Think of me forever assigned

to a period, a place, a people. Remember me
in stories—not the first time we met, not the last,

a time in between. Our moment here is small.
I am too—a worldly thing among worldly things—

one part per seven billion. Make me smaller still.
Repurpose my body. Mix me with soil and seed,

compost for a sapling. Make my remains useful,
wondrous. Let me bloom and recede, grow

and decay, let me be lovely yet
temporal, like memories, like mahogany.

“Gloria Mundi”

By Michael Kleber-Diggs

Chloë Rain

Chloë Rain is the Founder of Explore Deeply. She has been trained in ceremonial practices and shamanic healing techniques from two living traditional medicine paths, one in North America and one in South America. She has apprenticed under two indigenous medicine people for more than a decade, is a certified Native American Healing Arts Practitioner, and has a Masters degree in Indigenous Studies from the Arctic University of Norway where she spent four years in the Arctic circle, researching the sacred landscape of Sápmi, the land of the indigenous Sámi people.

Par son travail, elle espère inciter davantage de personnes à écouter l'appel de leur âme et les amener à se regarder d'un peu plus près, à regarder l'environnement naturel qui les entoure et à regarder les autres personnes et nos croyances de séparation, de race, de culture et de religion.

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