death
November 18, 2009
- Peace! Everyone says they want peace. We pray for peace, not war. When people die, we prefer saying, "They went to their rest." We don't like saying, "They are dead."Peace. Where would we writers be if the world were really at peace? No wars or crimes to write about. Hardly anything for the news outlets to report about.Sure, peace is better than war but how much peace could ...
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November 18, 2009
- We are left behind to invent a life no longer with us. Death sparks our creative resources. Death teaches us to live. From Death: An Anthology of Ancient Texts, Songs, Prayers, and Stories edited by David Meltzer I feel as though my own writing has taken a break. This is my attempt to get past it. I’ve been very quiet inside, conversing with ...
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November 14, 2009
- “So how’s it feel having sex with a dead man?”“Good,” I gasp. “Very good.”We laugh at the gallows’s humor. We can make jokes while having sex. We’re at that point with one another.Soon the laughing makes way to sighs and moans. A tear runs down my face but it doesn’t stop me from enjoying being very naked with my ex-boyfriend this one last time.God, can I really call him an ...
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November 4, 2009
- I suppose upon your birthday it's fairly common to reflect upon your life...however when the past year's events included such hellish experiences...it's not entirely pleasant to do so... So here I am, it's my birthday in three hours time and all I want is for it to just go the heck away. Not sure why it's bothering me so much to begin with... considering that at this point in my life, birthdays ...
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November 4, 2009
- The time has come, the walrus said, to solve the problem of death. God has been dead for at least a century. Existentialism has come and gone. Beckett ("I can't go on, I must go on"): in his grave (just around the corner, as it turns out). Derrida, who was obsessed by it: gone. Reincarnation: not too many adepts. Behavior therapy: is there any hope there? Can we ...
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November 3, 2009
- The most important thing my Grandmother White taught me—she never spoke in words. If a person had put a glass in front of my grandmother and asked her if it was half-full or half-empty, I think she would've been too preoccupied by the fact that the glass was dirty and would have to be washed to answer the question.To understand what she taught me, it's important to explain who she was and who ...
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October 31, 2009
- Well, it's finally happened and Gladys died yesterday. An event waiting to happen for a long, long time, in my opinion. More shocking to note, possibly, is that all I can feel about it is a mild relief and the thought that I won't have to schedule in my weekly twenty minute silent visit to her any more. Which, I have to say, is more than anything a scathing revelation of my sadly lacking sense of ...
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October 28, 2009
- I was born in LA county in 1960 and feel NO connection there. None. Even the ocean is changed. I do like the salt air smell and the eucalyptus trees. It is like being an adoptee who occasionally visits a biological parent who has both terminal cancer and Alzheimer's. You came from them originally, but there is no mutual recognition on any meaningful level and only sadness and alienation.
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October 28, 2009
- I don’t see death every day, but I hear it.From where I sit, in my home office overlooking a little Bosphorus bay, the day is punctuated by recess at a large school below. Sometimes through the din I think I hear a high-pitched pain cry echoing in the valley. An intermittent wail. Out on the balcony I listen, some primitive hackle raised. Rarely can I locate its exact source but it comes from ...
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October 27, 2009
