Danna Schmidt writes about adoption, grief, ritual, and death. Her writing has appeared in The Sun and Severance magazines, Raven Chronicles, Adoptee Voices, Grown and Flown, Maggie Oman Shannon's Crafting Love: Sharing Our Hearts Through the Work of Our Hands, and the forthcoming anthology, Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship (June 2026). Follow her at https://altaredmoments.substack.com