I hopped over here from the Being the Earth connection space, and just wanted to say that, as an adoptee who was conceived violently, I very much relate to feeling like "I'm not really supposed to exist, but since I do, I might as well make the best of it." And like you, I'm embracing ancestral healing work. It's so powerful, as your writing here beautifully demonstrates. I look forward to seeing you in the course and reading more of your writing here on Medium!

The concept of befriending Death has been with me for a long time. While working in a New Age bookstore in the early 90s, I read Leilah Wendell’s book Our Name is Melancholy: The Complete Books of Azrael, whose premise is that the author is the lover/partial incarnation of the…

I learned to ice skate when I was four years old. The first place I skated was the same rink where the Toronto Maple Leafs practiced. Later, my family joined the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club, where Olympic-level figure skaters like Toller Cranston and Tracey Wainman practiced. …