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The last ice age surely had its way with our corner of the world. They say the ice sheet was a mile or more thick here, which is a mind boggling verticality. It is almost beyond imagining that anything...
View ArticleVideo: The Skill of Brokenheartedness: Euthanasia, Palliative Care and Power
Watch Stephen’s address at the Compassionate Choices conference speaking about the The Skill of Brokenheartedness: Euthanasia, Palliative Care and Power.
View ArticleInterview: Stephen Jenkinson ~ Culture of Dying
Extraenvironmentalist speaks with Stephen Jenkinson about our cultural difficulty with death. Stephen draws on lessons learned from decades of working with death to describe how we can frame our...
View ArticleThe Friendship of Days
I don’t know when I stopped being a young person, or when I started being something else. I do know that I never chose that particular ending, and that it ended anyway. The whole thing is mysterious:...
View ArticleStephen Jenkinson Ken Rose Interview Series
Ken Rose sat down with Stephen Jenkinson over a series of interviews to discuss death and dying and Stephen’s work at his Orphan Wisdom school. We have now put all of those interviews together in one...
View ArticleDark Light
There comes a time in the epic saga of parenting when you have to decide whether you’ll introduce kids to darkness, so that something of the mysteries of having a human life could be their companion,...
View ArticleThere’s Grief in Coming Home
Being the subject of a documentary film is not employment for the faint of heart, nor is it for those with average skin density. The camera catches you in odd moments – at least you hope they’re odd....
View ArticleThe Solidarity of Learning
Whoever is in charge these days might consider combing the populace for anyone still alive that has a reliable memory that goes back to the 1950′s or 60′s. A little later would be even better. Those...
View ArticleHearth Wisdom and Kitchen Priests
At the Orphan Wisdom School I teach with one weather eye on the rhythm of the kitchen. That means that I time the ebb and flow of my teaching day to the menu awaiting the scholars and to the...
View ArticleKen Rose Interview ~ Proceed As If You Are Needed
Ken Rose interviews Stephen Jenkinson about his work with Orphan Wisdom in a talk about Eldership and proceeding as if you are needed, not as being needy. Listen below by clicking on the orange play...
View ArticleMaking Elders
On this you might rely: there are times when magic, mayhem and the mandate of your days gather themselves together and will make a claim upon your attention. If good fortune and good timing prevail,...
View ArticleThe Courtesy of the Tongue
That most heroic bard, and exemplar non pareille of all he advocated, Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill, late of Cambridge, Mass., was a man steeped in the wild comedy rising always from being a true human, alive,...
View ArticleThese Very Days of Wonder
When you have a website, all manner of phone calls and messages come your way. Some people seem to think that the internet is a mall of sorts (which it is, I suppose), and that if something of yours is...
View ArticleOld Hands
Stephen Jenkinson, whose work with dying people is profiled in Tim Wilson’s, National Film Board (NFB) feature documentary Griefwalker, comes to the nub and quick of why end-of-life reckoning is often...
View ArticleStephen Jenkinson Ken Rose Interview Series
Ken Rose sat down with Stephen Jenkinson over a series of interviews to discuss death and dying and Stephen’s work at his Orphan Wisdom school. We have now put all of those interviews together in one...
View ArticleThe Life-Giving Thing
What is life rooted in? – Tim Wilson, whose National Film Board of Canada feature documentary GRIEFWALKER about Stephen Jenkinson’s work, has put together an out take from the film with Stephen...
View ArticleDie Wise ~ A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
Die Wise – A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul, is Stephen Jenkinson’s new book about death and dying. Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying...
View ArticleDark Still
These particular days and and nights prompt me – as they do many – toward darkness and silence. This comes with the territory if you are to the boreal born, as I am. I’m prone to these twins of...
View ArticlePodcast: Dying Wise in a Death Phobic Society
Stephen Jenkinson interviewed by Daniel Vitalis on Rewild Yourself. “I was humbled by my conversation with Stephen Jenkinson, teacher, author, storyteller and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. This,...
View ArticleMoney Talk
Tim Wilson, the Director of Griefwalker interviewed Stephen Jenkinson about money at the time “Money and the Soul’s Desires” was first published, in a piece filmed for Vision TV. (Tim) I want to talk...
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