“Guy? Is it true?”
“I keep asking myself that same question.”
“What happened?
“There was an accident. He didn’t survive.”
“I’m so sorry.”
“I can’t talk. I have to go.”
This conversation by Facebook IM with my friend Lacey, was the first of many that were repeated scores of times with seemingly countless individuals. The advantage of a ubiquitous communications system that enables you to reach almost anyone you know at any time of the day or night. Continue reading
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The nightfall of my son’s passing was more than a dark sky devoid of moon and stars. Both above and beneath me, it seemed there was only darkness, the night above and the abyss below.
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”
– Fredrich Nietzsche
Epigram 146, Beyond Good and Evil
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Saturday began just as it always did. The beginning of yet another weekend, a mundane day of relaxed obligation. Morning coffee with my wife. Beer and pub food with a friend or two. The anticipation of a casual get-together for a cooking competition that had become a monthly tradition with the men of my life. Men whose friendships I counted not in years, but decades. Continue reading
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