He who dies last wins

Death & star trails, originally uploaded by Midnight-digital. An excerpt from "Mine Is Longer Than Yours," by Michael Kinsley in the New Yorker: The government statistics on how people die are lavish and fascinating. Let’s forget for a moment that it’s a catalogue you can’t really shop from. And yet you also can’t put it …

An antidote to a pervasive sense of death

Two thousand eight has started well for me, as years go. Lots of work to do — interesting work too. I’ve a least little time each week to spend with family and friends, the weather has been mellow, I’m feeling healthy…. Things are good. Yet I keep feeling that I’m surrounded by images of death. …