{"id":857,"date":"2014-07-15T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkinggrid.com\/dev\/?p=857"},"modified":"2014-07-15T06:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T06:31:57","slug":"death-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/death-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Death in The Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n

29 July 2013<\/p>\n

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The fact is we all deal with ONE reality. \u00a0No matter how you slice it people you love will stop breathing while YOU must continue. \u00a0Why?<\/p>\n

Well\u2026 for countless reasons of course. \u00a0Last but not least\u2026 IF everyone lived forever, where would you put all those people? \u00a0People are bulky things, animals. \u00a0Whenever anybody dies there is always a body to deal with. \u00a0Unavoidable. \u00a0Even in crime-shows: THE BODY is always a key narrative element in a story of death. \u00a0It must always be examined after death and then prepared for burial\u2026<\/p>\n

So final. \u00a0“The last resting place\u2026” \u00a0Yikes. \u00a0That phrase really sounds\u2026 TERMINAL.<\/p>\n

Metaphors abound. \u00a0Words flow. \u00a0Tears tickle. \u00a0Feelings swell.<\/p>\n

WE ride the bus of emotions UP and DOWN when LOVE passes through town.<\/p>\n

WHEN someone we LOVE reaches the “Final Destination.”<\/p>\n

The place where we leave our bodies behind.<\/p>\n

The End.<\/p>\n

Is not the end for everybody else. \u00a0WE must carry on and continue to fulfill our duties with all the dignity and grace one can muster. \u00a0WE MUST. \u00a0There is no choice in that regard; as long as we LIVE we are here to LIVE, LOVE, LEARN and get on with the business of LIFE.<\/p>\n

Basta!<\/em><\/p>\n

El Fin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

End of story\u2026 No. \u00a0The SOUL\u2026 that tiny wisp of cosmos\u2026 lives on.<\/p>\n

How? \u00a0What? \u00a0YOU ask. \u00a0I won’t answer. \u00a0You won’t believe me. \u00a0I don’t mind. \u00a0I just don’t expect anybody who doesn’t believe to start believing just because I do.<\/p>\n

Now, that THAT threshold moment in our lives is NOW\u2026 we pray and thank goodness we had the chance to LOVE the living ANGEL while she simply enjoying LIFE in her\u00a0increasingly dilapidated body. Really, she is better off now, I think. \u00a0Free, of that cumbersome shell and part of everything that makes the world stick together and keeps oxygen free.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Frau Kolb<\/p>\n

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(This is a private photograph taken long ago in Germany, please do not steal or alter or use this image in anyway, IF YOU do\u2026 beware the Kolb curse.)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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