Check in with The Dinner Party

We sat down to a IG live with @lennonflowers our friend, teacher, daughter in love, co-founder and ED of @thedinnerparty and @peoplessupper to talk about grief, love and whatever else came to mind. The Dinner Party is building a nationwide community of 20- and 40-somethings who have each experienced the loss of a parent, partner, child, sibling, other close family member, or close friend. Their mission is "to transform some of our hardest conversations and most isolating experiences into sources of community support, candid conversation, and forward movement using the age-old practices of gathering and breaking bread." During the pandemic, they've helped over 3,600 grieving people find community in their loss, whether with a grief buddy, or as a part of one of 140+ virtual tables. There are even 68+ virtual tables for specific loss experiences, like suicide or homicide loss, or speicifc identities, like tables for BIPOC or LGBTQ+ grievers.

Kathryn and I lost our parents when we were 19 and 25 years old and we have often talked about what a resource like The Dinner Party might have meant to us at that time in our lives. We ask that you please consider making a tax-deductible gift to www.thedinnerparty.org (link in our bio) this holiday season to support their incredible work. We hope you'll join us in donating and if you do let us know in the comments and why you think this work is valuable. We'll pick someone from the comments on one of these posts, some warm giving individual and invite you to have a 15 minute zoom with us where we can thank you for donating and talk about.... whatever you feel like. And if you leave a comment and we pick you and you're like "Oh, I don't want to be picked, just wanted to share and donate" then Kathryn and I will just talk to each other about how great you are for 15 minutes.

Thanks, stay safe, get vaxed and boosted and see you soon,
M&K

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