Free In Person Event! To Be Here Is Immense, Author Reading with Clare Simons
Sunday, September 13, 2026 · 3:30 PM PDT · New Renaissance Bookshop Event Center · Portland, OR
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# Free In Person Event! To Be Here Is Immense, Author Reading with Clare Simons **Please Read:** We do **not** process registrations or payments through Meetup. To reserve your spot, please use the **exact link below** to complete your registration. If you do not register through this link, you will **not** be signed up for the event. Clare Simons, Sunday, September 13, 3:30-4:30PM, Free! ***SIGN UP HERE: [RSVP Here!](https://www.tickettailor.com/events/newrenaissancebookshop/2294989)*** *To Be Here Is Immense* follows one woman's quest for love through art, activism, and spiritual surrender, spanning continents, states of being, and the devastating cost of devotion. Shattering loss demands everything. How do we go on in a world where nothing—not even the sacred—can be held? **Clare Simons** was the press person for the terminally ill patients who defended the Oregon Death With Dignity Act at the U.S. Supreme Court. She worked for the passage of medical-aid-in-dying laws in several states as an advocate for a lucid death. **Clare’s** essays about Amma, the Hugging Saint, have appeared in Parabola and Spirituality & Health Magazines, and her essay about boxing on the official Muhammad Ali website.