Light as a Feather
Light as a Feather offers a set of positive perspectives and approaches to the death and dying process. It is designed both for one who is dying and those who are dealing with the dying process in another. There is an approach of kindness to yourself and a person dying and this book is designed to become a manual for both living and dying, where you can both live life and prepare for crossing from one world to the other ‘light as a feather’.
This book is part anecdotal, but also deeply observational around the inner workings of the gift of life and death. There is an inner mystery to the workings of death and this book follows the long dying journey of Julia Tiffin’s mom, Maria Tiffin, and the deeper lessons that a dying journey may offer for us that are living, and how this process is a gift for our lives. In this journey with her mom, Julia also comes to terms with the sudden loss of her dad at 15 and the discovery of his body 10 days later. It is hoped that this book will assist those who both lose someone suddenly and through a prolonged illness.
Maria Tiffin was born 24 June 1943 and lived a deeply adventurous life. A sharp mind, she wrote ‘The Guide to Smart Thinking’ in her 60’s and her dream was to live to 120. Her life was, however, completed earlier at the age of 73, after a long battle with lung cancer, and she died peacefully 3 September 2016. Her husband, Ted Tiffin, died 15 March 1991 at the age of 48, and was found 25 March 1991. A genius paraplegic mathematician with a sense of exploring the impossible, he fulfilled his greatest dream of being a farmer & self-sustainable before his shocking death changed the course of the lives of the Tiffin family.
Extracts from the book:
“Crossing over ‘Light as a Feather’ describes what one can complete before we transition from this physical plane to another, but it also describes how to live ‘Light as a Feather’ while you are actually living. This describes how to let go of the weight we carry with us that steals our joy like a thief in the night. This is a manual for living and for dying.”
“Death is like a bus station. Sometimes we wait a long time at that bus stop waiting for the bus, and sometimes, just as we arrive at the bus stop, the bus arrives, and we are off.”
“I hope my mom’s long wait at the bus station will become a manual for living, and explaining what we need to do both in life, at death and after death so we can all be ‘Light as a Feather’ both in living and in dying … “
“… death is something so special and privileged. It is a process of moving from one world to another, realizing whatever this world may have meant and been about for you. And it is simply that, a transition, sometimes taking years, sometimes a moment. But it is simply the time taken to turn the page of a book, slowly or quickly.”
“She brought me through the canal of life and let me watch her walk through the pathway of death. Through this last walk, I was birthed into a new life, by her. She opened a doorway for me to do new things without her at as an anchor in my life.”
“If you take the opportunity to liberate yourself from your own fear of death, you can really review what you have not yet tried or embraced in your life. Stepping up onto a greater platform of your life can empower you to grab life and to live it with less fear. You can reach up for what you have always wanted to experience after you have moved through your process of grief. Once you have understood that spring follows the winter of the soul, where your grief gets expressed, then you can reach for summer that brings full light to the new life that is awaiting you.
Light as a Feather offers a set of positive attitudes and approaches to the death and dying process. It is designed both for one who is dying and for those who are dealing with the dying process in another. There is an approach of kindness to yourself and a person dying and this book is designed to become a manual for both living and dying, where you can both live life and prepare for crossing from one world to the other ‘light as a feather’.