Posts Tagged ‘impermanence’
death backyard
Squirrels. Mice. Ducks and their eggs. An unstable pigeon. Countless mourning doves. And bones and carcasses of unknown origin. These are just some of the casualties that my backyard has witnessed and, as a by-product, so have I. As I write this, I know there are several feathers being tossed around by the vigorous…
Read Moredecaying gracefully
November. The birth-month of the colour grey. The dim season that reminds us, in cool hushed tones, that all things decay then pass. Because our seemingly fool-proof escape plan includes the perfect hibernation scenario, we forget. Surely we will be one of the ones who succeeds to see yet another spring. It will not happen…
Read Moredeath date not cut
I discovered the death date not cut phrase on a web site that acts as an online roll call of the sleepy inhabitants of a small country cemetery near the town where I was born. And in fact, this bracketed set of words sits ominously next to the name of my 101 year-old grandmother who…
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