Death benefit

If it weren’t for endings, we’d be swallowed whole by an irremediable boredom.

To Ramona

We are mostly untutored in the essentials—death, loss, temporality and diminishment. Grief is ego’s response to an existential fact: “Everything passes / Everything changes.” It’s an unwillingness to let go of what’s gone.

Into the mystery

Beginnings are easy. Not so, endings. Every ending is a seminar on surrender.

Finito

Enough already! If your relationship needs reviving, gown down. The patient has expired.