ian hollander @ianhollander

You can’t tell when strange things with meaning

will happen. I’m [still] here writing it down

just the way it was. “You don’t have to

prove anything,” my mother said. “Just be ready

for what God sends.” I listened and put my hand

out in the sun again.

You will realize you are dying before your time!”

Don’t let another day tick away in ignorance of the reality that you’re a dying person. We all are. Can today be the day we stop pretending otherwise?

But, as with the normal life, one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less.