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Coming To Terms With Our Mortality

Woody Allen once said, “I don’t mind dying, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

Is this the way you feel about life and death? Especially the death part?

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Interesting personal thought today. Our Aging group gets together this morning. We're a group of 60 something to 80 something year-old friends wrestling with the concept of growing older, consciously. This week I had a discussion with my mom's hospice nurse as well as her other nurses and social worker. She's 94 and slowly declining, both physically and mentally. As much as I want to believe she'll improve after a recent fall, her nurse made it clear, she won't get back to the way she was before the fall. When I visit each week, or talk on the phone I need to be aware of the time I have left with her. It isn't forever. It's only right now. And then I need to remember the time I have left, myself, is only right now and not forever, and to make good use of that time. Spend time with family, with friends, with people, projects and organizations I hold dear to my heart. Most of the other stuff is just fluff and time wasting. Peace.