Image credit: Photo by [phil h] on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons We have a friend who is pregnant right now, and this has got my son Austen thinking about life, although oddly enough, not how life begins, but rather how it ends. He hasn't really expressed much curiosity at all about how life starts; [...]
Posts under ‘death’
Giving Birth to Change
Image credit: Photo bymindfulness on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons When I was about eight or nine, I took my beloved uncle's cigarettes away and started flushing them down the toilet. I didn't want him to die prematurely (as he did anyway). Even as a child, I was sure that if I showed him how desperately [...]
Before I Die…
Photo credit: Photo byMs. Maze on Flickr Death is on my mind for obvious reasons lately: the loss of first one friend and then another, both younger than 45 and both within days of each other. And I've noticed, in this thinking about death vein, that my friends Mama, MomVee and storyteller have all posted [...]
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Photo credit: Photo bydavidteter on Flickr When I was a little girl, I had a best friend named Vickie. Together we played detective and watched Wonder Woman and chased the boys away from our favorite haunts on the elementary school playground and teased our pesky little brothers. Her little brother, Frank, was my brother Rob's [...]
Haiku Memoriam for an "Imaginary" Friend
When my son was bornI met the mom of a sonthe same age as mine. Her hair was jet blackor so I imagined itthrough pixels on screen. My computer hums.Together we laugh, cry, share.She's there every day. Monitor flickers:Eerie light of a false dawnwaking me to day. I see the words there,detached, non-corporeal:my friend passed [...]
