By: Irishapi Pernebsati

It takes a village,” they say. 

But how many of us in the modern world have paused, in moments of overwhelm or despair, to ask: Where is my village? 

Especially those standing closest to life’s thresholds: birth, death, and the fragile spaces in between, where support is meant to surround us like air. 

For many, the answer is sobering: there is no village.