tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1456857068476095225.post3204562654176381462..comments2023-05-21T05:56:57.842+01:00Comments on mindfulness and mortality: Funeral celebrants - why do we do it? part 3: search me...gloriamundihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476712899700515223noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1456857068476095225.post-90330426426138635342010-11-15T09:13:46.659+00:002010-11-15T09:13:46.659+00:00Hey, if I could find a navy suit that I liked I...Hey, if I could find a navy suit that I liked I'd buy three of them - since I've been a celebrant, navy has obviously been out of fashion. <br /><br />Girlie rant over.X. Piryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17484665119103422982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1456857068476095225.post-41601662141603446452010-11-12T09:44:27.573+00:002010-11-12T09:44:27.573+00:00XP, I'm very pleased to hear you feel thus val...XP, I'm very pleased to hear you feel thus valued.If I may say so, I don't think you should feel it's only temporary and inflated. I'm sure that you get grateful and sincere comments well after the ceremony - sometimes several days later? Well, there you are then! A chap said to me before his wife's funeral - "well, you've found your vocation, haven't you?" I was well chuffed.<br /><br />Name me someone who doesn't have "self-esteem issues" and I think you'd probably be describing an odd and very possibly dangerous person. Self-doubt is part of the human condition, non?<br /><br />Do you think black is more slimming than dark navy? H'mmmm....gloriamundihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12476712899700515223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1456857068476095225.post-83005057407101486832010-11-10T11:15:07.287+00:002010-11-10T11:15:07.287+00:00Great post, thanks, Gloria.
There are times when ...Great post, thanks, Gloria.<br /><br />There are times when I think that the only reason that I do this job, is for the ego massage I get afterwards (yes, I do have self-esteem "issues"). There are times when I think that I only do it because black is slimming. <br /><br />But in terms of overall peace of mind; setting aside the paranoia of the self-employed (and there we get onto the money issue), I have never felt more valuable in all of my working life. <br /><br />This may be temporary and inflated - most mourners feel relief immediately after a ceremony, and so thank the person who got them through it, irrespective of qualit - but it gets me through the day.X. Piryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17484665119103422982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1456857068476095225.post-71068788716202665192010-11-01T20:32:26.687+00:002010-11-01T20:32:26.687+00:00Thanks Charles and welcome back from the limestone...Thanks Charles and welcome back from the limestone isle.<br /><br />H'm. Yes it does generate so many questions, and in a way I'm pleased about that. "Business as usual" would be, I feel, a disastrous basis for it. <br /><br />But one of the biggest questions may well be the one about fees. Sometimes I agree, yes we should charge a more realistic fee, and then maybe we'd benefit from a harder look from FDs and families at how well we do the job. Sometimes I think no,income must never become the main driver in this role. Sometimes I'm just immature, and seemingly unable to accept that the whole area is bound to be impure, as it were, and there's no point in trying to polarise it into a materialistic/non-materialistic opposition.gloriamundihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12476712899700515223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1456857068476095225.post-23553462190149654022010-11-01T20:10:45.577+00:002010-11-01T20:10:45.577+00:00I think this a brilliant list of motivators. I say...I think this a brilliant list of motivators. I say that because I see myself in pretty much all of them. <br /><br />Love that Japanese poem. <br /><br />By charging so little, do we sell ourselves, and the event, short? <br /><br />Celebrancy in all its aspects spawns a higher proportion of questions to answers than anything else I can think of...Charles Cowlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06757185376546920527noreply@blogger.com