bones of the master-
due to problems with ordering the book online i am still awaitng it's arrival. i have read the first chaper which i have photo copied. i really responded to this one in particular quote from the book

"nothing more was said. nothing more needed t be said. nothing was missing. everything was as it should be. as it always was. as it always would be. even this dying. this goodbye"

especially because of my current situation with the illness of my grandfather, i've been stuck on the idea of loss. not only loss through death but even just from moving out and on to a new city and a new life. i've been having such a hard time with the transition of movig here and realizing what it means to grow up and what it means to have to accept all of the things life throws at you. i think there is some sort of beauty in accepting these things, especially death. i sat on my grandfathers hospital bed while he was struggling to breathe, with skin sunken in & somehow when someone asked "how are you?" he was able to smile and say "wonderful".


i thought that was beaautiful.