My name is Linda Hill. I am a retired community psychologist, experiential educator, naturalist, and author of two previously published books, Discovering Connections: A Guide to the Fun of Bridging Disability Differences and Connecting Kids: Exploring Diversity Together.
I am grateful to live in the warm and welcoming Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada: The unceded territory of the Quw’utsun People who have been continuing their loving bonds with these lands for millennia.
When I was a little girl playing in the woods by day and listening to fairy tales by night, my career goal was to become a magical fairy. I could think of nothing better than a life of flying here, there and everywhere granting wishes, helping people and protecting nature.
When I grew up, I indeed became a magical fairy, along with becoming a psychologist, researcher, educator, mother and grandmother.
My beloved spouse John and I spent most of our professional and volunteer time granting wishes, helping people and protecting nature at home and many other places in the world.
Along with several dozen other “Inclusive Travel Guides,” we eventually founded a Diversity Education project called Inclusive Leadership. For twenty years, we guided thousands of children, youth and adults to explore their potential to help people, protect nature and grant wishes for building inclusive communities based on respect for social diversity and biodiversity.
Wherever we went, we taught everyone we encountered to value social diversity and biodiversity as valuable gifts that enrich the world.
Then, in 2020 everything changed.
When John was diagnosed with a terminal illness, neither of us was perfectly practiced or completely prepared for this journey to the horizon of his life. But we were both practiced and prepared enough to accompany each other well. We made our wishes for how we each wanted to be the best we could be. With the help of our family and community, we set about making each wish come true.
One of our shared wishes was to write a memoir. Now that the book is written, my new wish is being granted. I am travelling the world (virtually and in person) facilitating meaningful conversations about how Continuing Loving Bonds transforms end-of-life accompaniment, death care and bereavement into heroic journeys of re-orbiting around love and happiness.
You are warmly invited to join me.
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