The Year of Magical Thinking

'You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The details will be different but it will happen to you.'

Joan Didion

'You think you know who you are. You have no idea.'

Matt Dillon in Crash

Comments

[Al]

"Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas, and sweet Jesus, there are a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning. Still humping the American dream."
-Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[Stef]

Remember that every time a baby laughs a fairy is born; every time a baby is born an angel gets its wings; and every time someone dies the world keeps moving.

Death is not the end, and funerals are for the living; so have that party and celebrate.

These were the instructions my father left when he died (some years ago now) and I've just had to pass them on to my best friend. Somehow, I think they're worth sharing.

[jonathan black]

Thank you, Stef! Those are very wise thoughts.

Incidentally this particular post was originally a bit longer - a reflection on a sort of writing I really like and seek to emulate - but some of it didn't 'take'. I may come back to it.