It’s my last day of being 42 today. I had a friend who died at this age, of a brain haemorrhage. He was on holiday with his beloved wife and their three small children. They went to bed, and only his wife woke up in the morning. Why does it take horrific happenings like these […]
Tag: death
Notes on mortality
I had some conversations about death with my middle son today. Our neighbour’s grandmother had died, and the funeral is today. They love this neighbour, a young man who babysits often and plays the best, weird indecipherable superhero games with them. So the boys were concerned about him, and very interested as to where his […]
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
In her poem, The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac, Mary Oliver talks about the urgency of living. She asks: Do you need a prod?/Do you need a little darkness to get you going? And then brutally reminds us that such a vibrant soul as Keats died at just 25. None of us have much time. […]