More about Carolyn​

I am most alive when I am Outside. Outside by myself, Outside with other people, Outside gardening, building from scrap wood, rock climbing, hiking - the Outside is my home, source, hope. I came from the Outside. To the Outside I shall return: ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Spending time under trees, on mountain trails, and among the nimble creatures of air, water, and earth, I tend toward the mystic in my living, moving, and having my being. All this sounds like an unholy mixing of Disney princess and Mary Oliver, doesn't it? ​

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I am an odd blend of highly practical horse sense, well-timed irreverence, simple humor, artist, biology and engineering curiosity, quiet companion, entrepreneur, sap, goofball, nun, activist, and nerd. I can also cook food that will make you slap your mama, as we say in the South. I use all these parts in all of my work: dying, death and grief work, pastoral leadership, public speaking, mothering, canine caretaking, and generally being human. 

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I am deeply grateful to be a creature, alive, walking on the earth.