Cafe Immortelle...a Death Cafe

Cafe Immortelle is just around the corner again! I hope you’ll join us this Sunday, September 28, from 2:00–3:30 p.m. at the Philip & Jerry Miller Library in Castle Rock. We’ll be gathering in the Sjostrom Family History Lounge for what I know will be another heartfelt and meaningful conversation. Feel free to bring along a beverage of your choice. We’ll also be enjoying a delicious tea — crafted with care and infused with love — generously provided by Teaology Tea Café in Castle Rock.
I’m especially excited that Celebrant, David Natalizia, will be co-facilitating with me this month. As September gently carries us from the bright, busy days of summer into the quieter rhythm of autumn, it feels like the perfect time to pause and reflect on change. With that in mind, our guiding question for this gathering is:

> “What transitions in your life have taught you the most about impermanence?”

Life is always shifting — we graduate, we get married, we retire, we lose people we love. Every one of these transitions invites us to see life in a new way. And beneath them all lies the biggest transition of all: death.
Part of what we do in Cafe Immortelle is hold space for the weight of death — the way it shapes how we live and influences every other change we experience. Does it feel so heavy that we try not to think about it? Or does it feel so distant that it barely seems to matter? There’s no right or wrong answer here. This is simply a space to explore how each of us understands and approaches death — in our families, in our culture, and within ourselves — and how becoming more intentional about that might open new ways of living and connecting.
This conversation is a natural continuation of where we left off in August, when we talked about Death & Ceremony and the delicate line between the two.