How the world appears to the dead?

I came across this image by my Flickr contact "jeff and leyla" and was struck by the beauty of what should appear stark, but instead I ruminated that perhaps this is what the world becomes to the dead; beautifully and vibrantly monochrome and colorless. Still beautiful but drained of color like your body when the undertaker begins his work.

Almosts and Not Quites

"I like to think that your mother is almost whole," he said. "So much in life is about almosts, not quites." --page 133 Alice Sebold's The Almost Moon.

How true this seems. In the world of make believe, every story we tell has the neatness of a gift wrapped birthday present. Life on the other hand rarely does--almosts and not quites rule.

Leonard Tours Once Again Age 72

My favorite singer songwriter poet (Leonard Cohen) is not yet done.