Archives for “death”

The Hardest Things

Receiving that phone call that you are gone. How can that be? Reaching the house and seeing the coffin in the hall. I thought about it ...

7 Comments. Posted by Admin on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 7:32 pm.

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14 April 2008

I will remember this date for the rest of my life. It was our first weekday back in China and I went through my usual home-maker ...

14 Comments. Posted by Admin on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 11:31 pm.

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My father is gone

Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with the juicy bone. Silence the pianos and, with ...

25 Comments. Posted by Admin on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 7:41 am.

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Death of a child

I received some really sad news this week during a chat session. Someone I knew IM-ed me: "Hey, did you hear about A's baby?" "What about? I ...

8 Comments. Posted by Admin on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 1:02 pm.

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