Ledges
Sometimes, the dark sometimes, you turn to old habits. But when the road to those habits is temporarily closed or they aren’t attainable, or you feel they won’t work anymore, you find yourself at a...
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Just Passing Through
I When my time comes all the bindings will be undone immersing in a reversing flow its currents converting me to a slow unwinding and un-blinding the final secrets proving all geometries under a fat...
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Easter Uprising 2017: on being Christian - a sequel to Buddhist Thoughts at...
Last night, on Good Friday, I spent too much time responding to a meme posted on Facebook that read “Religion makes fools of us all”. I was irritated that people feel a need to post atheistic aphorisms...
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Death and Dying
The practice is metta: loving kindness. It is my meditation and intention to give/receive metta. I don’t always share this quiet dialogue I have with (my)self and other: we are one. I am fed, sourced,...
View ArticleEaster: More Than a Promise of Life After Death
Most pastors have more than a passing acquaintance with death and dying. They are frequently called to people’s bedsides at the time of death. They spend hours in rooms over which a pall has already...
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Love Outlives All
Hey Dad – I can feel you I know you’re out there Always here in my heart Nearby in the air Like a whisper in the breeze Or rustle out of sight The glint in a dew drop Or the star shining bright In the...
View ArticleAnother Forty Days, Day 40--And So We Wait
Jesus is dead. For those watching the spectacle from start to finish–people like his mother, Mary, Mary Magdalen, and John–it must have felt like the day that would never end. He was taken down and...
View ArticleMy Anti-Bucket List
Life in the Boomer Lane has a good friend who often refers to her bucket list, when talking about travel. Every time she does this, it occurs to LBL that she, herself, has no bucket list like that....
View ArticleHelp On Death & Dying
Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Jeyran Main Founder & Owner of: Review Tales Millionaire’s Digest Team, Author, Books, Writing, Successful living & family & life. On Death...
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I cried...(1/2)
My family will tell you I cry easily. Bets are on when I watch a movie with them as to which scene will start the waterfall. But it was not a movie that made my cry the other night. I am a coroner and...
View ArticleThe Little Prince
The narrator is a pilot who finds himself lost in the desert with a broken plane. The little prince approaches looking for a friend as he travels across planets. Oddly at first, the little prince asks...
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I cried...(2/2)
Then the question came; how long do you think she has? A sister and a brother are on their way here tomorrow. I don’t know for certain, so much variability, but it could be a day, maybe two, I answered...
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The Mirrored Candle
All laid before me in an instant and all time was now. Suddenly I was everything, from the tiniest grain of sand to within the molecules of the birth of stars. I could see everything, the Earth and...
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A Funeral in S-Town
Spoiler alert! If you haven’t listened to the S-Town series and don’t want details revealed prematurely, please move along. I’ll be discussing the full series here.[1] It is impossible to listen to...
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Review: ‘Obit’ Follows the Team That Writes Death Notices for The Times by...
By GENE SEYMOUR The documentary peers over the shoulders of journalists at The New York Times as they decide who merits obituaries and then go about the delicate business of writing them. Published:...
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A Mother's Reward
Photo Credit @Liz Young A Mother’s Reward by T. Delaplain Seven lay resting: too early, too late, born still, the measles, poisoned blood. Those that God left, the Great War took away. Wandering...
View ArticleTo Go or Not to Go
I was in high school when the new family moved in up the driveway. I was gone two years later and di
View ArticleOn Death & Dying
Dr. Ross takes us on an adventure with many research and interviews, opening our eyes to the world where, let’s be frank, most of us do not wish to think about, let alone deal with. What can you do or...
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Why I Am No Longer a Mortician
Dawn was streaking between the towering buildings of downtown Denver as I drove under them on 17th Street on my way to work. The music in my car was loud and I sang along. I’d be directing a funeral...
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party crashers, treatment smashers
The last thing I expected to see when I opened the New Hampshire Union Leader at my mom’s house this morning was a full color 7″ x 7″ photo of Scott’s and my friend Michael Uvanni. The piece was...
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