drummer girl
Life After Death
the story of a journey home
“And if there is one thing I know it’s that writing comes out of tension,
Tension between what’s inside and what’s outside, surface tension…”
- Rachael Cuske
Notes from the author
I touched death,
I saw death, I experienced death,
I returned
I have never been fearful of death. It is the dying, the suffering, the sloughing of the body, and the weakening of the mind that frightens me most. I have visited death’s doorstep. There, I was called by an energy that has no adequate descriptors in our limited language. The words bliss and beauty and warmth fall short. I was met by a highly energized, womb-like presence. Unconditional love and a transcendent sense of peace enveloped me. It was here, in this other world, that I found HOME.
— Sally Dukes
The elephant, the remover of obstacles, the keeper of memories, stomps the path through the forest floor, so that others can find their way forth.
Image courtesy of: Murad Swaleh
Early Acclaims for drummer girl
CONNECTING WITH THE TRANSCENDENT
in life and death, the enormity and joining with all, words often fall short. Rarely does language convey this hugeness of existence. Sally Dukes’ breathtaking memoir excels at guiding us into the intersection, the infinite pinpoint of what it is to search and deepen into one’s life.
Katherine C Woodhouse, MS, LICSW
