by thosecreativetypes | Sep 28, 2021 | funerals
I meet with families to discuss the funeral service and one of the first things people ask me is, ‘What do we do?’ As I break down the steps and elements of a funeral service, I can almost see the shoulders drop, the deep breath inhaled, and people...
by thosecreativetypes | Jun 7, 2021 | funerals
A recently released statutory review calls for a shake-up of the funeral industry in NSW. The report calls for significant changes to the funeral industry (note that the report is dated Aug 2020 but was withheld until recently). SMH published an article on the report,...
by thosecreativetypes | Dec 9, 2019 | depression, funerals, hope, Interfaith, motherhood, Random insights, Taoism
If we become addicted to the external, our interiority will haunt us. We will become hungry with a hunger no image, person, or deed can still. – John O’Donohue[1] Something is missing I am married to a good man. I have a beautiful eight-year old...
by thosecreativetypes | Mar 10, 2018 | funerals, Interfaith
I conducted my first funeral this week. Conducted? Officiated? Celebrated? None of those verbs quite fit what it felt like, which was more in the realm of Journeyed, or Travelled With. It was almost the end of the working day when the phone rang. I contemplated not...