I See You've Called in Dead

by John Kenney

Dating in one’s forties is a radically different experience than dating in the carefree days of one’s twenties.

“In the event of your termination, I’ve taken the liberty of providing a packet, including information about COBRA, the benefits center, and a crisis helpline.” “Crisis?” “It’s simply their name. There’s no crisis. When and if there is, there’s a number to call. If no one answers, leave a message.”

You should have children. Best thing. The only thing. You realize how much better they are than you.

I can list every world capital and details of America’s involvement in the Pacific Theater during World War II but can’t mention to the occasional lady friend why I weep when I watch a Subaru commercial.” “The one with the dad and the school bus.”

“The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is the Stephen King of bridges. Something like four miles long.

Not the longest the 26 mileong bridve in NOLA is the longest

“We need to open to life as it is, rather than how we want it to be. And how we want it to be this constant state of painlessness, of ease and safety.”

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”

“We hold the past in our body,” she said. “It never forgets. But it can learn to let it go.”

The greatest wonder is that every day, all around us, people die, but we act as if it couldn’t happen to us.

What death dares us to do, is celebrate it. To celebrate the gift of life in its fleeting face.”

Tim said we are all obituary writers because we get to write our life every day. Write it. Please. It’s your life.