My heart is wide open to this work, and it has been for a decade.

Ten years in to death work, my passion hasn’t wavered once. I love teaching death work, art, and culture midwifery, I love it, and I am so grateful you are here, stepping onto this porch.

I know what waits for you. I’ve watched the Keys work their magic on so many students, and I promise you: it is real. It changes you. All praise to the Great Primordial Mother, who guides every turn of these Keys. I cannot wait to see how your magic shows up, how your death work takes shape.

You must know this before we begin: the most revolutionary thing we can do is to bring awareness to the sacredness of death. To teach our communities grief literacy. To remember that death touches everything, our politics, our love, our future. Death work is political work. Death work is revolution. Death work is holy. Death work is a privilege. Death work is beautiful. Death work is art.

Are you ready? I’ll meet you at the first Key.

—Narinder