Pamela MacPherson’s presentation, based on her poetry in Vigil: The Poetry of Presence, will benefit any hospice or NODA program she speaks to. I asked Pam if she would speak as part of Mission Hospice and Home Care’s Community Conversation Series, which takes place on Zoom due to COVID-19, and she agreed immediately. I am so grateful. We had lots of interest in her presentation from our volunteers who sit vigil, as well as from our community members.
Pamela’s poems are beautiful gems that distill in such few words the incredible experiences had by slowing down, becoming fully present to what is and turning towards death, instead of away from it. Her words are precise; her love of her patients and these experiences is tangible. The presence that is so very clearly articulated in her poetry exuded from her as she read these wonders to us.
Susan Barber, Director of Community Education
THE POETRY OF PRESENCE
