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Roots & Stars

Notes on life + creativity, magic + mystery, mothering + becoming, deepening + unfolding.

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    I’ve never felt closer to death than before and after I gave birth to my children. Not in the sense of feeling like I was literally about to die. Just that the spirit of death felt nearer, more present in this peak experience that carried me to some borderline. You can’t give life without facing death. You can’t meet the sacred and not sense death close by – tangled up in the roots of what it means to be all the way here.I think about death a lot – and I thought about it the other day, following

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