Outline of a heart shape with a second inner outline, glowing with a neon-like orange hue on a black background.

How do we stay open-hearted in a crumbling world?

Grief and Liberation explores grief, pilgrimage, ecology, kinship, ancestry, spirituality, and the search for aliveness in fractured times.

IF YOU ARE…

Interior of a coffee shop with a wooden table holding a potted plant, a notebook, glasses, a pen, a smartphone, and a cup of coffee. Sunlight streams through a large window.

GRIEVING

Find support, words, and practices for navigating loss, and honoring what matters.

Go to Monday Mournings

Close-up of the gills of a mushroom, showing detailed, closely spaced gills with a slightly curved edge, surrounded by green grass.

SEARCHING FOR WONDER

Essays and pilgrimage writings on beauty, attention, and the sacred in everyday places.

Explore Essays

Close-up of a yellow wildflower growing in a field at sunset with a colorful sky in the background.

LOVE SPECULATIVE WORLDS

Step into the Underground Dispatch: fiction from beneath the mycelium.

Enter the Dispatch

A foggy forest scene with tall trees and green foliage.

INTERESTED IN ANCESTRY & MEMORY

Unclaimed Ancestors explores memory, disappearance, and our responsability to remember.

Visit Unclaimed Ancestors

Religious altar with statues, framed photographs, and candles, dedicated to saints and religious figures, with a white laced tablecloth.

SEEKING PRACTICE & GUIDANCE

Workshops, grief support, death doula services, and resources for the journey.

See Resources

Hikers walking on a dirt trail through lush green forest with mountain and lake view in the background.

WANT TO GO DEEPER

Behind the scenes notes, works in progress, and ways to support this work.

Visit Patreon

Featured Essay

The Ones Who Stay

Notes from the Camino on mass tourism, spiritual hunger, emptying towns, what we have lost and what we might still reclaim.

Read now

A narrow street lined with old stone buildings, with a person walking in the distance carrying a yellow backpack, under a partly cloudy sky.

Current Meanderings

How Do We Enter Into Relationship With Our Ancestors?

Exploring memory, inheritance, and the ways that the past lives within us.

Read the Essays

A person with short curly hair and a nose ring taking a selfie outdoors during sunset, with a view of the ocean, rocky cliffs, and a partly cloudy sky.

About Michelle

Writer. Death Doula. Grief Worker. Cultural Witness.

Guided by ancestry, grief, and the more-than-human word, this queer Puerto Rican storyteller walks between worlds, tending imagination, remembrance, and liberation.