"Grieve not for the dead, for the dead feel no pain... Instead, weep for the living, who heal to hurt again." -- Unknown
Tag: death
Thoughts on Quotes on Death
"I don't want to go." - The 10th Doctor But that wasn't really death was it - it was rebirth, reincarnation. The wish fulfillment of a hundred million souls. What if... when we die we just get popped into a new body? Keep the memories, ditch the bad hair and judgy personality. Start all over, … Continue reading Thoughts on Quotes on Death
Still Life
I've lost my fear of failure, and I'm in no rush to replace it. I'll encounter failure again, in dark alleys and low lit corners, but I will see it as only a friendly former foe with an age-crooked back and dull, flaky claws. The rejections arrive as sleeping breaths, inevitable, slow and deep. They … Continue reading Still Life
Memory
I don't trust memory. I am nine or ten, and I am sleeping over at my friend Holly's house. (Holly is not her real name. It shouldn't matter, since she is dead now, but I feel the need to protect her.) I know Holly doesn't have a dad, which isn't too strange. This is the … Continue reading Memory
Stubborn Ignorance
Silence is not agreement. I keep my mouth shut as I walk behind the two women I am working with this week. The younger one is marching in her formerly fashionable combat boots in time to the words barking from her mouth. The topic is Suicide. Don't ask how they got on to that subject, I wasn't really paying … Continue reading Stubborn Ignorance
Mind of a Mouse 