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Theme: Grateful Dead / Gratitude for Death

“Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.”
— Grateful Dead, Box of Rain

As we gather this month, we do so with grief and gratitude in equal measure. The recent passing of Bob Weir, guitarist and co-founder of the Grateful Dead, invites us to reflect on the ways music, mortality, and medicine intermingle.
The Dead's lyrics often circled around death—not as an ending, but as a companion on the road. From Black Peter to He's Gone, they sang of impermanence with a strange joy, woven through with the deep-time wisdom of plant consciousness and altered states. This month, we attune to that ethos.
We'll honor those who came before us, those who may pass soon, and those we still hold—through grief, memory, and wonder. Gratitude not as consolation, but as recognition: that death, too, is a teacher.

From their song Ripple;
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go, no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
You who choose to lead must follow
But if you fall you fall alone
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home

### Event Description:

A communal space and opportunity to chat about death, grief, psychedelics, and everything in between.
We will begin with a short guided cannabis meditation, followed by an art experiential.
Everyone is welcome to share their experience and exploration with one another.
BYOC and art mediums that feel comfortable to you.
This is an event for those interested in using plant medicine to support the exploration of one's relationship with death and the natural cycles of nature.
The Dead were never quite about answers. Just spirals, echoes, and frequencies of remembrance. Not unlike meta-relationality: patterns and reverberations across time, co-shaping what we feel, grieve, and inherit.

May this cafe be another space of that re-membering.

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