10/21/2025
When Death Arrives On Our Doorstep: A Primer for These Times
We're combatants, tangled in the net, fighting for our life, our beloveds, the vulnerable and marginalized in our midst, and our Earth home. We're sacred witnesses and gentle hunters, bringing love and presence to the battle and the combatants. We can hold all of this, be all of this — complex, resilient, bruised, wise, powerful, loving — knowing that death will come, one way or another, because the world as we know it, the net of patriarchy has run its course.
In these visions and realizations, I find my hope, my inspiration, and this prayer, from my open and broken heart to yours: out of our struggles, out of the pain and suffering of so many, out of the great harm we have inflicted on our Mother Earth, out of the thousands and thousands of deaths, rebirth will come. We will live once more from the love, beauty and goodness that are the best of our nature, and the world will be forever changed.
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Artist Laura Tempest Zakroff
