A moment of silence

I just found out that someone I am close to is dying. Not today but soon. And it made me stop and reflect just for a moment how fragile we all are.

Sting has an old song "Fragile" that speaks these words.  A song that pulls out the sorrow of what Geneen Roth talks about in Women Food  and God; the sorrow of "coming to terms with your messy, magnificent and very, very short--even at a hundred years old--life."

You never really think about all the fragile parts of you.  Or think about how, when, why that fragility will break.

So for this post there is no question.  Just a moment of silence to think about how fragile we are.

-- Steven Cardinale