This day, marks the anniversary/remembrance of my father’s transition. I am so moved to be sharing it with those called to join on this night.

This is was what tonight’s ceremony is about.

Some love does not stop when the body does.

It keeps moving — through memory, through the body of the living, through the dreams that arrive in the quiet hours when the veil between worlds grows thin. It travels. It reaches. It finds its way into moments you weren't expecting and leaves something behind that you carry without fully knowing why.

In Kichwa, the language of my ancestors, there is a farewell that carries no real ending in it:

Tupananchiscama (Too-pahn-ahn-chees-kama) = “Until we meet again”.

Not goodbye. Not gone. Simply, until. It is a word that holds the understanding that separation between the living and the departed is not final. That love does not require a body to continue its work. That the thread connecting those who have crossed and those still walking does not break, it just changes form.

This ceremony is for everyone who is carrying someone they love.

A parent. A child. A friend. A love. A person whose absence has a shape in your life — whose presence you still feel in ways you can't always explain. We gather not to mourn, but to acknowledge what has never actually left. To feel the thread that still runs between you and the ones who crossed first. To let that love be real and present and spoken. 

Ceremonial cacao opens the heart's most tender chambers. The journey creates the conditions for whatever still needs to move between you and the ones you carry to finally move. What needs to be said. What needs to be received. What was always there but has been waiting for a quiet enough moment to be felt.

The thread is still there. Tonight we feel it.

What to bring:

• Yoga mat

• Blanket or layers

• Water

• Journal

• You may bring a photo or object that belonged to someone you are honoring — it is welcome in this circle.

Cacao note: Please review health considerations before attending.

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