I think about life and living every day. These days, those thoughts include more about death and dying, which are not separate from life and living. Life includes death. Living includes dying.
I can say this with a smidgen more confidence now than yesterday. My hope is that each day, I grow another smidgen of confidence when it comes to this topic. I can be a real slow learner, but I plod along nevertheless, smidgen by smidgen.
Today I went back to the article I posted yesterday and read some of the comments at the bottom. One of those comments included a link to this YouTube video. Short and sweet (bittersweet). But for me, helpful.
Thanks for sharing this, Jane! I spent the weekend in an advanced training for Zen Hospice Project volunteers where we realized as we always do that death and dying is really as you say life and living. Enjoy every sandwich ... every conversation, every poem, drive, dog walk, color ... the list is wonderfully endless.
Posted by: Jeff Kennedy | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 07:37 PM
Wow. Wow. Wow. THANK YOU so much for sharing this video. Ah, do I relate. Cancer makes you think about death so often, and I'm so sick of people talking about "fighting" cancer. It's part of our bodies, it's growing within us, how can we fight it or hate it? This is such a more sane way of dealing with any type of illness. XO
Posted by: Claudia Schmidt | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 08:10 AM