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Caitlin Doughty
Steering the world towards death acceptance and positivity since 2011, and helping me answer so many death and dying related personal questions.
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April 2026
The Brothers Green
When I was younger my energy was with Hank. Explore! Learn! Ask questions! Do big things! I still explore and learn and ask questions and (sometimes even) do big things, of course.
As I have grown and changed as a human being, I find myself with a bone deep understanding of John. We share anxieties and fears and somehow, his neverending belief in the goodness of people.
"Hope is the thing with feathers / that perches in the soul / and sings the tune without the words / and never stops at all." -E Dickinson
As a child I was told to make a little birdhouse in my soul, and without ever realizing how or when it had come to be there, I understood one day that the thing with feathers had settled into that birdhouse long ago and was the background music of my life. It had always been there, even if I couldn't always hear it. It is still always there, even if I can't always hear it.