Posts Tagged ‘dying’: 2

On Finding My Favorite High School Teacher

I wanted to ask if she might like to have lunch someday. I felt nervous and 17 again. Thankfully she beat me to it. That’s how I came to be seated in the dining room of her orderly, yet cheerful, northern NJ condo.

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Is This Really Your Last Year?

It may seem counter-intuitive at first, but I believe that there can be no better way to learn to live fully than to live with a sense of the immediacy and the impermanence of it all. After all, wiser men & women than I have undertaken similar quests since the beginning of time. Many of them have been transformed by it.

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