Tag: death

A surprisingly heavy echo

I’m still deleting emails. It hasn’t gotten old yet. This quiet excavation of a life lived in subject lines and timestamps. Somewhere between “no longer relevant” and “why did I save this,” I keep brushing up against memory. Not the dramatic kind. The soft, ambient kind that hums […]

Focus Drips with Sadness

“Personal tragedy has ways of focusing us in ways other things can’t.”Congressman Joseph Morelle, NY, recently said this, and oh boy, is that ever true. Focus isn’t always a calm, zen-like, candlelit process. Sometimes it’s a zap. A kick in the gut. A cruel nudge from the universe […]

Fading in the Falling Leaves

The leaves tumble down,  Another season passing, but where are you now?  Your laughter once echoed in these walls,  Now it’s just silence that answers the calls. Your favorite things—long gone, misplaced,  Like shadows of a life we can no longer trace.  The grief is here, sharp and […]