Dear Ones, As I reflect on all that we have cultivated together at Emberlight, I find myself returning to a simple question: What becomes possible when a community organizes itself around love? Emberlight began with a question at the heart of my work as a hospice and palliative care physician: What gets in the way of our being love at the threshold of death? Over time, that question has grown into something much larger: not only how we accompany one another through dying, but

Dear Emberlight Community, “Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief.” - Mark Nepo These words have been echoing in my heart lately as I reflect on the complexity of the human experience, the paradoxes of life, the beauty and sorrow that so often coexist, and the humbling experience of “not knowing.” In both my personal life and my work at Emberlight, I am continually reminded that life cannot be controlled or predicted.