UPDATED AUDIO: Salt and Peppering My Dad's Ashes: My Grief Ritual at Redfish Lake, Idaho
🎧 UPDATED AUDIO – Now Ears-Approved! This re-released version comes with smoothed-out sound for your comfort. The original audio had a few sharp turns (thank you for your grace). This one is tuned to invite you into stillness, memory, and meaning. Same content as previous episode in the feed. Feel free to move right along, to the next episode, if you already heard this episode. In this deeply personal episode, I take you with me to Redfish Lake, Idaho. Idaho is my father’s birth-state and now the resting place of part of his ashes. You'll hear raw, real-time reflections from the lakeshore and Redfish Creek, the steady hush of water moving downstream, and a live recording of the words I shared at his celebration of life. We begin with a poem close to my heart, The Long Boat by Stanley Kunitz, read by my dear friend Jude Theriot. a poem I happened to read the morning after my dad passed. This episode is a mosaic of pilgrimage, poetry, grief, and devotion. A dispatch from the road. A ritual in sound. An offering for anyone carrying love and loss in the same tender hands.