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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

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Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that hap...more

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But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperatel...more

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Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

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While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between t...more

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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest ...more