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6/7/2020 1 Comment

How Could I Not Be Among You?

 I just realized I have not blogged or photogged or posted for a week.  I know I've had longer gaps, shorter gaps and at times, no gaps at all.  But it struck me that time has become so irrelevant during this time of COVID and Black Lives Matter, Hurricanes in the Gulf and so very much time alone.  And then it suddenly hit me: this is something like it might be if, and when, the world goes on without me.

At university I took a seminar on the Psychology of Death and Dying.  One of the books we used for study was How Could I Not Be Among You? by a man facing his own death.  That title more than anything has stayed with me.  It is so difficult to imagine your own absence in what was your life.  But sooner or later....

Anyway, that is what I was thinking about this morning and I thought I'd share.  And I realize now more than ever before, it is so important to be present not only in your own life, but the lives of others.  And the comforting thing is that I know we live in each other's hearts and minds long after we are gone.  That, then, is how I could be among you...even when I'm not blogging, photoing or being socially undistant.

Namaste

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alicia rowe
6/7/2020 11:21:17 am

Hi Rob,
Thanks for being there!

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