Small mercies are all around us – look for them. Carry them close to your heart, and they will brighten the shadows when they fall.
Tag Archives: death
The Weight of 200,000 Souls
200,000 people have died from the covid-19 virus in the US
Elegy for My Father
Elegy for my father
Crossing Over
I am honoring my father’s life, for he died yesterday July 2, 2020 – age 95.5. Love him forever.
In Memorium
Memorial Day and remembering those who have died from Covid-19.
Art has Two Constants
He realized more vividly than ever before, that art had two constants, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating on death and it is always thereby creating life. –Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago The spark of life within us glimmers and shines, and occasionally adversity or blessing fans the spark into a bonfire. That animated nucleus …
Life and Death are One
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Kahlil Gibran Life and death are connected one to the other along infinite paths. This gull’s remains provide evidence of the eagle’s feeding. All life converts death into life. We are sustained by sacrificing the life-spark of other beings. So-called …
