The seasons have been kind to me. Why, even today I was out at 8am for my 38th Park Run. My nemesis, the only other man in the 80-84 age group turned up today, so I completed the 5km in second place. A friend of my wife is in the final stages of her incurable illness and in talking about it I was reminded of Emily Levine’s Ted talk How I Made Friends With Reality. I think her acceptance of death in this Ted Talk is a great help to each of us - as the reality that life is finite can, at any moment punch us in the nose with this truth.
Grief is real but like a Beethoven symphony it has an end. Not so we can say it is over but so we can continue to love life. Enjoy today I am.
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