Portland Open House

We're building a home where we can be our whole messy, beautiful, grieving, joyful complex vital selves. Where we can relearn how to build from loss and weave the wild diversity we each contain into a web that holds us - flexible, resilient, brilliant, strong.

Serena Trexler will be opening the house this month. She is a funeral director focused on making home death and home funerals available to everyone who wants them. Serena is a green burial expert, experienced death care worker and overall wonderful human being. Listen to my conversation with her on Portals - search for the episode titled; Violet In Not Waking Up, What Happens Next.

Come meet and talk with Serena, read a book, draw a picture of your sorrow, spend time in the coop talking with lost loved ones on our wind phone, write letters to your beloveds, share food and tea, dream about…