Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host Thomas McCawkey. Thank you so much for listening today.

We are still towards the beginning of a new year.

I hope you've had a strong start and are feeling the creative energy and all the juju that comes

with an open field of possibilities. I had an experience over the holidays that I thought would be

helpful to share here on Mindfulness

Plus as a practice tip, as a life experience.

So I'll say, let's see, context here, all of my siblings, all seven of us were in the

same place for the holidays, which I can't remember that ever happening. And it was just this

great convergence of family all in one spot, just beautiful to catch up with people and meet

the new versions of their children who grow and change so much that they're different people

every time you see them. And as all of that was happening over the holidays,

my dad's mother was actually in the process of passing.

So this was interesting.

She was the last of my living grandparents.

And for all of my other grandparents, they either passed away in the night

or I was out of the country when it happened

and was felt quite distant from the death. But in this case, my grandmother, Juge, we call her,

legal names Judith's daughter, McConkey. We call her Juge. I was up very close and personal

for this one and just could really feel the death process playing out through her.

It was really profound, and it was Christmas Day, actually, where Juge was deeply letting go and family coming from all the four corners to say their goodbyes.

Late into the night early the next morning on the 26th, about 3.30 a.m., she transitioned.

You know, even as I talk about it, I feel how much I was feeling in that moment.

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