Time On This Earth

Reading Kubler-Ross' On Death and Dying. Some amazing book. I can't help thinking we're all coming to terms with losses on a daily basis, big and small. We lose jobs. We lose parents. We lose our youth as we grow older. My son misses the carefree fun of pre-school, now that he's a senior statesman (first grader). On September 11th we lost friends, heros, strangers, but more than anything, lost a sense of safety and security that still saddens me. Big grief there. We wear the widow's weeds for at least a year.

Yesterday, I threw away a very large pair of Nike hightop sneakers — my dad's last shoes. Getting good at grieving. Getting good at loss.