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What to Bring to a Shore or Boat Ceremony: A Compassionate Checklist

Some goodbyes belong to water. The hush of a lake at dusk, the slow roll of the ocean, the way light rests on the surface—everything invites a gentler pace. If...

Mini Biodegradable Urns: How to Plan a Multi-Location Memorial

Some families carry love across many horizons. When gathering in one place isn’t possible, mini biodegradable urnsmake it gentle to hold simultaneous ceremonies—simple ash-scattering or small burials in different locations—so...

Lake Farewells: saying goodbye where the water holds you

Some goodbyes belong to water. There’s a way a lake keeps quiet for you—the light resting on the surface, the tiny lap of waves, the feeling that the world is...

A butterfly garden for someone you love

Some goodbyes ask for quiet hands and a slower breath. Over time I’ve learned that the most comforting farewells are simple, kind to the Earth, and rooted in a place...

What to Say at a Farewell Ceremony: Gentle Words for Scattering Ashes in Nature

There’s a tender question that so many families bring to me: “What do we say when it’s time?”When hands are holding a biodegradable urn, when the lake is quiet, when...

Return to Where Love Lived: Choosing a Meaningful Place in Nature for a Farewell

Lately, many families have written to me with the same quiet truth: we chose a place where they were happy. A lake where a father fished at sunrise. A quiet...

What to Do with Ashes After Cremation: A Heartfelt Guide to Choosing a Meaningful Farewell

When someone we love dies, we enter a quiet, unfamiliar territory. One moment we are caring, supporting, loving—and the next we are left holding the weight of decisions no one...

An Earth‑Embraced Goodbye: Choosing a Biodegradable Urn with Intention

A few weeks ago, a client asked me: "What does a biodegradable urn really mean?" In that simple question was the heart of what Pachamama believes — that a goodbye,...

Designing a Farewell Ceremony That Feels Like Them (And Like You)

Some moments in life can’t be rushed. Saying goodbye is one of them. If you're here, maybe you're about to return ashes to nature. Or maybe you're just beginning to...

When Grief Travels Across Oceans

Some losses arrive like quiet waves. No sudden impact, no crash—just a slow and painful realization that someone you love is no longer here. That you weren't there. That everything...

Maybe It’s Her

The other day I walked into a store and, without warning, I remembered being eight or nine, standing beside my mom as we looked at notebooks, or walked the aisles...

When Love Stays: Living with the Absence of Those We Miss

Some mornings I still reach for my phone on Sundays, almost instinctively. There’s a quiet moment of pause where my body remembers before my mind does—that my mom isn’t on...