Susan Cross is a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant® from the Celebrant Foundation & Institute. She lives in northern New Mexico, well-wisher to ravens and coyotes. Susan works from her tiny house on windy mesa as a Life Cycle Celebrant and a craftsperson. She’s a burial shroud maker, hand drum and rattle builder, a ceremony writer, a gardener, an old mother, a grief-stricken naturalist drinking single malt scotch, and strives to remain a humble student in the school of hard knocks. Susan has felt called in recent decades by the deep past which has led her on pilgrimages to many Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in the landscapes of her people, to ancestral healing, and trying to understand the impacts of diaspora. She’s exploring ways to “preserve the archaic whisper” by finding strategies to safeguard pieces of our humanity that are at ongoing risk of atrophy.