Akilah S Richards

Akilah S Richards

15
Jan
Choose Your Grounds...

Choose Your Grounds...

Below are the various areas of excavation and exploration available on these grounds. Scroll through each of them and read
3 min read
13
Jan
(Invite) Monthly Grief Affinity Circle

(Invite) Monthly Grief Affinity Circle

Grief doesn’t demand clarity or resolve—it asks for our presence, our curiosity, and our permission to feel it fully.
2 min read
09
Jan
Digging into Grief-inspired Freedom

Digging into Grief-inspired Freedom

Our grief tenderizes us, softening the hardened edges we've built up as a form of protection. Edges that grew into thick, thorny bushes that block out light and exaggerate separation.
3 min read
16
Oct
Hard Dough Bread, Cornmeal Porridge, and Snickers Bars. Hear me out...

Hard Dough Bread, Cornmeal Porridge, and Snickers Bars. Hear me out...

A food rant turned snuggly reminisce about food as culture, and as love.
1 min read
02
Oct
The Grief We Don't Talk About Enough

The Grief We Don't Talk About Enough

Lessons from a disruptive dementia tour
4 min read
30
Sep
"Roots, Rest, Grief, and Death" - One Creative's Chorus

"Roots, Rest, Grief, and Death" - One Creative's Chorus

Honoring the path and the path-clearers that walked me here
6 min read
28
Aug
What absence can do for presence

What absence can do for presence

A tribute to Jasai Madden
3 min read
22
Jul
Ferns, Philodendron, Growing, and Grief

Ferns, Philodendron, Growing, and Grief

6 min read
26
Jun
Maybe grieve it before you "fix" it.

Maybe grieve it before you "fix" it.

Replacing "I need to fix" with "I need to grieve"
2 min read
24
Jun
Knocking Parenting Off Its Pedestal

Knocking Parenting Off Its Pedestal

Clip from a convo about deschooling with a spiritual mentor while in seminary (a year ago)
1 min read