My mom said that her dad visited her the other day. He died nearly two decades ago but it made me happy when she told me that because I would hope he and my grandmother would be somewhere around. I lay in bed the other night thinking about my loved ones who had died and that if I keep living there will be plenty more that will die.<\/p>\n
I had gone next door to my neighbor’s because I was feeling blue but when I got there she was making plane reservations because a family member had come home from work that day and took off his clothes and dropped dead. He was 62. She said, can you imagine? And I said, that is how I hope to imagine my death – sudden.<\/p>\n
The other day on our way to Neko Case, a young woman in an SUV ran a red light and almost slammed right into my door. We both managed to eek out the last life in our brakes and avoid a collision but afterwards T and I were shaken – albeit Neko Case’s lush voice steadied us by the second song.<\/p>\n
What about other kinds of deaths – deaths of marriages, deaths of friendships, deaths of cities, deaths of ideas, death of dreams, death of careers? What is death but a transition? When you look at the other side of death there is birth, right?<\/p>\n
Note to self: try to find the answer to this question soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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