Danna D. Schmidt

Master Life-Cycle Celebrant®
Ordained Wedding Officiant
Funerals/Memorials Specialist
Certified Grief Educator/Tender
ADEC-Certified Thanatologist®

The Grief Bowl

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Danna • 0 Comments

They are the best of days, they are the worst of days. I speak, of course, of the late spring/cusp-of summer, high-holy days we have come to celebrate as Mother’s and Father’s Day. If you are a newly-minted parent with a babe in arms and said babe’s grandparents are alive and well as first witnesses, these can… Continue Reading

The Great Wheel

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Danna • 0 Comments

Looking up at La Grande Roue de Paris (April 2016) How to make sense of death and make peace with life in the midst of the mysteryand inevitable suffering that death brings? That is the question on my mind today as I consider five family deaths and a multiplicity of lesser joys and sorrows, losses and… Continue Reading

News & Musings

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Danna • 0 Comments

I really had the best of intentions to update my blog more. Sigh. For a peek at some of my ceremonial distractions these past months, however, have a look at my inaugural issue of Waypoints…in which I wax poetic about weddings, poignant about the season of my father’s dying, and prophetic about honoring your own… Continue Reading

Patriot Games

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Danna • 0 Comments

“I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening, it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush the Dutch elm whose long-gone limbs I remember as if they were my own.”George Ella Lyon, excerpt from “Where I’m From” Where I’m from, we… Continue Reading

Here Comes the Sun

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Danna • 0 Comments

“We like the things that summer brings. It brings the sun. It brings the heat. It brings the things we like to eat.”Alice Low, Summer Summer is coming, summer is coming! We feel it in our bones, we see it in the sky and we know it to be so in our restless, vagabond hearts. The sun has been… Continue Reading

Say it RITE…the Ceremonious Way!

Danna D. Schmidt

Say it RITE…the Ceremonious Way!

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