Yesterday, I joined the local moai of those affected by death and identified with death omnipresent death. We pulled strips of paper with four questions, which were:
- What concerns you most about death?
- Knowing you will die, what makes your life truly meaningful?
- What has influenced what you believe about what happens after death?
- If you know that you were going to do die in a month, what would you do?
This is attention on death animates life, our living. I pulled the 4th question, minutes after I’d casually mentioned how W’s answers to the 1st question motivated me, when I am 26 years younger than her. The 1 month horizon spurred memories of Steven Levine’s A Year to Live book that I spent time with a dozen years ago. [I’ll go find an excerpt from that book that pertains to naka ima.]
washing dishes: a father’s glimpses 