Hi everyone. Welcome back to Becoming the People. I'm Prentice Hemphill. This is usually the time

in the month in the sequence where I do a mini episode and I would love to do a mini episode

except this week I'm not going to be able to because my father is transitioning right now. He's currently in hospice and I am

going to be with him as he makes his transition out of this life. For those of you who followed my work,

who know some about my story, you know that this is a complex relationship that I have with my

father where there's a lot of love and there's a lot of pain there's so many things and so I'm going

to take the time to just really be with all that's showing up for me. There's really so much.

And, you know, I was just looking back,

and I actually messaged Elua Arthur

because last week's episode was our conversation

with Elua Arthur, who's the death dula going with grace,

founded Going With Grace, or she trains other people to be death doulas.

And we were talking about end of life and death.

And we recorded that about a month ago.

And at that time, I didn't know that I would be in this place right now

where my father was transitioning.

So there's something really, I feel a lot of gratitude

that I had that conversation with her, that I was readying myself for what this journey

has already been and will be. And I guess I want to just, I don't know, bring us back to the kind of core messages of that

episode that death is all around us.

It's with us.

And to remember to live as fully as we can with as much presence as we can.

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