Tag: Death

Never let memories become more important?

flinch

 

(photo: iPhone screen shot from the book Flinch)

Never let your memories be bigger than your dreams.

She wrote back that this wouldn’t apply to her elderly Father.

To be open minded, replied back that the food for thought was appreciated.

Moments later the thinking was done and the conviction unmoved.

What if we thought death was the most magnificent day in our life?

This is only possible if you believe in something you’ve never seen.

So yes, never let our memories be bigger than our dreams.

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Live so that death doesn’t catch you unprepared

AARP article about soldiers' final letter home
Preparing for death was important even in 1779

 

AARP advice on dying
The underlined part is great advice.

 

Live so that death doesn’t catch us unprepared. The underlined part of the photo:

“uncertainty of life ought to induce every man to prepare for death”

As we walk on the treadmill of life, we poison our souls so slowly we never notice.

Notice.

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His only grandson was born eight months before his final breath.

Lab with two stuffed toys in his mouth
Jack is not a dog, not a raccoon, nor a hedge hog (all of them are in this pic)

 

Jack – a father, not the traveling bear – would have been 80 yesterday (May 19). He raised a son and daughter in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania.

His only grandson was born eight months before his final breath.

Weird how these moments in life come and go.

What emotions should we focus on?

What was lost?

What could have been?

Grateful we got anything at all?

Make the best of it.

Bonus video of Jack the Bear in Alaska (for real):

 

 

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