Musing on the gift of a well-crafted funeral ceremony

In writing my page about my services as a funeral officiant, telling the story of my experience at my young...

A Baby is Born, a Mama is Born: Blessingway in Boulder

We all love to celebrate the baby:  baby showers, with their accompanying bundles of baby-related gifts are the norm.  And as much fun as those...

YMCA of the Rockies Wedding Ceremony

This coupled lives in Wisconsin, and all our work together was done over the phone. Their relationship began with a great adventure, and when they...
Get to know Jen a little better

Get to know Jen a little better

I think there are at least a bajillion words on this website...but if you want to explore my thoughts a little deeper, here's some recent press: KSQD : Talk of the Bay. Christine, Naomi and I have a delightful exploration on how ritual and ceremony assist important...

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On Beauty & Ceremony

On Beauty & Ceremony

On a recent wintry walk, I was listening to Michael Meade. Stories + Walking = Happy Jen. His words and stories got me thinking about beauty & ceremony, and how they are so linked for me... Michael Meade said, "To put more beauty into the world is to change the...

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Rocky Mountain Elopement Ceremony

Rocky Mountain Elopement Ceremony

Sometimes I wish I could just be the official Rocky Mountain National Park Wedding Officiant. I mean... what an office! From the drive up to the park, to the gorgeous scenery of the park itself, it might be one of my favorite places for the quintessential Rocky...

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Ceremonial Musings

One cannot live in the world; that is, one cannot become, in the easy, generalizing sense with which the phrase is commonly used, a “world citizen.” There can be no such thing as a “global village.” No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one’s partiality. -Wendell Berry