Post by t-bob on Feb 14, 2022 16:55:57 GMT -5
My Daily Reminder
“We have only metaphors to talk about death, but the Grim Reaper metaphor is all wrong. It makes us think we’re separate from death and that death is our enemy. On my bureau, another metaphor: A Mexican Day-of-the-Dead diorama, a scene in a box just a couple of inches high, in which a skeleton doctor delivers a skeleton baby from a skeleton mother while a skeleton nurse stands by. It reminds me that birth and death go together. Death keeps giving us life, killing old cells to make room for new ones. And what’s hiding under my skin? My skeleton, who lies down with me at night and gets out of bed precisely when I do in the morning. Still, it was harder to remember that death was not my enemy…….”
I found an tremendous excerpt collaboration article like this..... Tricycle Magazine. There's been so many deaths, people, relatives, dogs and cats…..
I’ll send it to you privately.
“We have only metaphors to talk about death, but the Grim Reaper metaphor is all wrong. It makes us think we’re separate from death and that death is our enemy. On my bureau, another metaphor: A Mexican Day-of-the-Dead diorama, a scene in a box just a couple of inches high, in which a skeleton doctor delivers a skeleton baby from a skeleton mother while a skeleton nurse stands by. It reminds me that birth and death go together. Death keeps giving us life, killing old cells to make room for new ones. And what’s hiding under my skin? My skeleton, who lies down with me at night and gets out of bed precisely when I do in the morning. Still, it was harder to remember that death was not my enemy…….”
I found an tremendous excerpt collaboration article like this..... Tricycle Magazine. There's been so many deaths, people, relatives, dogs and cats…..
I’ll send it to you privately.
