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write the obituary you'd like to receive.
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2007
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Siona
Siona
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 03, 2007:
The idea of a mapped out list of accomplishments, or any attempt at a description or summary of what the energy within me lead to during the time I was alive appeals to me not at all.
I want to live. I want to live, and I want my words to live, and so I would like my obituary to be a poem I have not yet written, and one that will take me my entire life to write.
Tonight the moon is more full than I've ever seen it before, and I am so happy to be here.
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I love this answer!
This is one of those questions that doesn't interest me either, but you had all the right words for what I feel about it.
And the moon was beautiful here last night too!
I tried to write about it too, and the words would not come. I did use it as an exercise to write a love letter to my husband, and that was wonderful. My philosophy - don’t bother thinking about the end of your life - that’s gonna come regardless. Live fully. Love freely, and the rest will take care of itself.
I remember what my brother wrote about Opa (Siona's gramdfather) after he died. That his love was like rain just pouring freely everywhere. The thing is that he is still pouring it down, so that was no really an obituary.
Oh, thank you, all, so much. I wanted to push myself to write something, because I know that the questions i don't want to answer are the ones where real edges lie, but I think it's true… I don't much care what my obituary will say, or about what accomplishments I might or might not rack up, and I don't want to forget that the journey is the destination. And so, I wrote, I want to live.
I'm so glad I'm not alone in this, and I want my obituary to pour forever, too.
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