ILLUMINATE Speaker Series: A Conversation with Pico Iyer

In the fall of 2020, Pico Iyer kicked off the illuminate Speaker Series with an inspiring exploration of coping with life under the pandemic. Pico will be returning to illuminate to discuss some of the questions that have been on his mind recently as conditions keep evolving: how can any of us live differently as we emerge from the pandemic? And how has living so close to death for so long, as all the world has been doing these past eighteen months, changed and even instructed us? What might his adopted home of Japan have to offer as we think about grief, death, and transitions? How has his thinking about loss changed after the death of his mother a few weeks ago? A Conversation with Pico Iyer will be moderated by Charles Caldwell from Hospice of Santa Barbara.

Since 1974, HSB, a local nonprofit located in Santa Barbara, CA, has been providing compassionate care and support free of charge to care for anyone experiencing the impact of a life-threatening illness or grieving the death of a loved one in our community.