A way to celebrate me after my death

Written By 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 a Spiritual Guide whose work is deeply rooted in the initiatory cycles of nature. She has more than fifteen years of ceremonial practice within two traditional medicine lineages, as well as having completed graduate research while living above the Arctic Circle exploring the sacred landscape of Sápmi through a Masters degree in Indigenous Studies.

Through her writing and body of work she hopes to inspire more people to listen to their soul’s calling, and cause them to look a little closer at themselves, at the natural environment that surrounds them, and at other people and our beliefs of separation, race, culture, and religion.

She offers one-to-one spiritual direction for those navigating life transitions and deep personal spiritual inquiry.


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