life_before_death past words of radiance seep from fiction to lived life. most recently this one comes to me, out from across the cosmere to our humble earth. friends and family going through tragedies of different trajectories and speeds, all in common the passing from being to not being. but the flavours (for lack of a better word) of the mournings shift depending on this. were you there for them in life? or just in the (unexpected quick or long lingering) moments of death? where do i want to be, which people do i want me when my time to not be comes? who should speak for the dead? let's live so we can be here in life together, first, before we are there in death, with luck not for many years. 220123 ... raze (this is so gorgeous, and meaningful, and true.) 220123 ... kerry (echoing raze. thank you for this) 220123 what's it to you? who go blather from