Fri, 13 Nov 2009

Wearisome? Worrisome . . .

battology [buh-TOL-uh-jee]: wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing [source]

Sure, repetition of words can wear you down. But I worry that the single statement or words I write here are wearing people down.

posted 08:40 [/Words] permanent link

A Meditation on Death

My mother-in-law recently passed. At the memorial, the priest presented this brief meditation . . .

I am standing on a seashore; a ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.  She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch her until she stands like a speck, just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.  Then someone at my side says, "There she is done."  Done where?  Done from my side that is all.  She is just as large in mast and hull as she was when she left my side.  And just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination.  Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There she is done."  There are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes."  And that is dying. (Author unknown to me)

posted 08:31 [/Thoughts] permanent link