“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”― Rumi Death is a major part of this life experience. I love to be around death. To stare at it in the face. To be with it,…
Category: TalesFromHospice
Tales from Hospice Take 5
I like to gaze in to the eyes of Death It might sound odd, or scary, or maybe even a bit liberating? To me, each human I’ve ever sat beside, while gently holding their hand and gazing in to their eyes as they are letting go of life and slipping in to death, has given…
Last Breath – Tales from Hospice Take 4
Yesterday, I sat by his bed side as he took his last breath. This man, I had never met, until now, in this intimate moment… Lying on his bed, Hot towel drapped across his forehead, Eyes cracked open just enough to see them rolled upward, Breathing, strangely, but regularly… until, he wasn’t. I put my…
TalesFromHospice:Take3
As I walked out of the Rehab center after the quickest 2.5 hours ever with my Hospice Friend the sky stopped me in awe. I stood there for a few moments, staring up, giving thanks, tears streaming down my soft fleshy cheeks, as life is so beautiful, and so precious, and so seemingly fleeting. I…
Being romantic about Death
I write a lot about death, I’ve noticed. Is it not the ONE thing that is guaranteed for us all? So I figure, why not take a closer look, see what it is teaching us. I started wearing this black ring around the ring-finger of my left hand. Where a typical engagement and wedding ring…
Did you say Phyllis? Tales from Hospice Take2
There I am, squeezed in at the corner for a small square lunch table, eating my home-made lunch with four elderly ladies in the Cloisters Nursing home. One of the ladies being a Hospice Patient I have been visiting for months now. There I am, in the middle of saying something, and the woman to…
Thinking About Death: Tales from Hospice Take 1
I recently was given two new hospice patients… Ah what a blessing it is to work with human beings who are, and know they are, about to die. They are different than normal humans who believe death is far off in their future, these people know what is upon them, they have nothing left to…
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