book "Be a Tree, the Natural Burial Guide for Turning Yourself into a Forest." While I'm still wrestling with getting it published (things keep changing, so this may end up being 'it' someday', you can read an overview below and get yourself started on the road to becoming a tree....
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The phoenix is the mascot of winning losers everywhere. Take a moment to pause in the ashes of a loss to contemplate what new, amazing life can grow out it. That’s a powerful consolation prize. Jimmy Carter is beloved the world over despite a presidency that experts and conventional wisdom...
Her village was all but disappeared, nothing but ashes on the gods’ gentle breeze. The day after the fires, the women of the village had shorn their hair to shoulder length, Mara included since her fifteenth birthday had passed two weeks prior. She wasn’t used to it. She liked to ...