DEDICATIONS

cay and rebirth. Give it to Sister Dust, who accepts your tears and makes petrichor of it. It smells good again, finally.

If you have lingering guilt, shame, or unexpressed unprocessed anger, it will be much more difficult to move from feeling stuck to feeling mobile. Your current life practices will help you consistently do what is right for you, clean up confusions, clean up bad relationships, and heal your mind.

My grief story has morphed into a wildly undomesticated, never-before-seen bird of great beauty that exists in a new and ever-meaningful state. It shifted. I shifted. The impermanent world keeps shifting. When you are stuck, be stuck. When you see light, aid mobilization. When you are moving more freely in your heart and mind, go to Nature and give her the remnants. Bow to Great Nature, who heals.

In Loving Memory of Jose

Miguel Orozco

To my daughter Melissa Orozco. I am so proud to be your Mommy. Your brother “Sato” is watching from Heaven, smiling and proud to be your forever Angel.

I love you my Queen.

May the work of luminous help open the hearts and minds of many that Spirit is Eternal.

May we remember where we came from and where we will return.

Forever Dad-you are my solar rock.

-Alison Sinatra

Twenty-one years ago, when I was 21 years old, I participated in a training course to become a hospice volunteer. I had been taking a class called The Psychology of Death and Dying that my professor had recommended. In the hospice training, we were asked to write down ten people we loved dearly, ten places we loved to be, and ten activities we loved to do. I invite you to do the same now.

The next part of the process was to go on a guided visualization, where we imagined receiving a diagnosis of needing to say goodbye to each of these people, places, and experiences we loved, one by one. It was heartbreaking. Gratefully, I’ve learned over the last 21 years that hearts break so they can open. Immediately upon the contemplation of losing these things in my life, I felt a deeper sense of appreciation for them in the days to come.