North on 101: A Conversation About Caregiving with Author Anne Starr
In honor of National Caregiver’s Day, Tending the Sacred invites you to a heart-centered conversation with Anne Starr, author of North on 101 — a luminous and unflinching memoir of love, loss, devotion, and the quiet transformation that unfolds through caregiving.
In North on 101, Anne chronicles her journey caring for her brother through illness while navigating the emotional, spiritual, and existential terrain that caregiving inevitably opens. What emerges is not just a story of endurance, but a profound inquiry into presence, meaning, identity, and the sacred dimensions of showing up for another human being day after day.
This conversation marks the kickoff of our Caregiving as a Spiritual Practice series, where we explore caregiving not as a problem to be solved or a role to survive, but as a lived initiation — one that can deepen compassion, awaken inner wisdom, and reshape how we understand love, surrender, and service.
Together, we’ll explore:
Caregiving as a spiritual threshold rather than a detour from one’s path
The unseen inner work caregivers are asked to do
Grief, grace, and the quiet teachings that arise in prolonged care
How meaning can be cultivated even amid exhaustion and uncertainty
Whether you are currently caregiving, have done so in the past, anticipate this role in the future, or simply wish to understand this profound human experience more deeply, this conversation offers reflection, resonance, and a reminder that caregiving — while often invisible — is sacred work.
✨ Live conversation followed by audience Q&A
Hosted by Anne Starr
Anne Starr spent her childhood in Michigan, Vermont and Ontario. Her professional writing has appeared in Integral Review, Springer Publishing, and Emergent Learning case studies, and MIT newsletter. Her “Evening” was nominated for Best Microfiction 2023 Anthology. She holds an MBA from Simmons College.