Stephen Jenkinson interviewed by Daniel Vitalis on Rewild Yourself. "I was humbled by my conversation with Stephen Jenkinson, teacher, author, storyteller and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. This, my friends, is a very powerful interview. Stephen will make you re-think everything you thought you knew about dying." ~ Daniel Vitalis. Listen and read about...

Stephen Jenkinson, whose work with dying people is profiled in Tim Wilson's, National Film Board (NFB) feature documentary Griefwalker, comes to the nub and quick of why end-of-life reckoning is often so hard. New, not seen before footage of Stephen speaking with Tim during the filming of Griefwalker.

When you have a website, all manner of phone calls and messages come your way. Some people seem to think that the internet is a mall of sorts (which it is, I suppose), and that if something of yours is there you have a stall there and must be selling something (which is so...

That most heroic bard, and exemplar non pareille of all he advocated, Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill, late of Cambridge, Mass., was a man steeped in the wild comedy rising always from being a true human, alive, in a time unfriendly to grace and to a deepened mind. Which means that he was storyteller of the...

On this you might rely: there are times when magic, mayhem and the mandate of your days gather themselves together and will make a claim upon your attention. If good fortune and good timing prevail, those times won't be lost on us. Generally the visitation is a subtle one, and so it can happen...

At the Orphan Wisdom School I teach with one weather eye on the rhythm of the kitchen. That means that I time the ebb and flow of my teaching day to the menu awaiting the scholars and to the considerable labours that underwrite it. For a few minutes early in the morning I stand...

Whoever is in charge these days might consider combing the populace for anyone still alive that has a reliable memory that goes back to the 1950's or 60's. A little later would be even better. Those rememberers should be given a stipend for life, and their only job would be to bear faithful witness...

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There comes a time in the epic saga of parenting when you have to decide whether you’ll introduce kids to darkness, so that something of the mysteries of having a human life could be their companion, or whether you’ll let the world do that for you, so that they could be challenged for years...

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