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A tinge of optimism!

*** Today’s topic is a topic we all think about while doing our best not to think about it. The topic is death. And how we think about death changes depending upon whether we are thinking about dying ourselves, or about losing the people we love. But whichever side of the coin we take here, death is really an ever present reality for us, and it is so whether we are thinking about it or not, it is always announcing itself – in the background, on the news, in the stories we hear about the lives of the others, in our concerns about our own health, in the attention we pay when crossing the streets. If you observe yourself closely, you’ll see that you spend a fair amount of energy each day trying not to die. And as has long been noted by philosophers, and contemplatives, and poets - death makes a mockery of almost everything else we spend our lives doing. Just take a moment to reflect on how you’ve spent your day so far – the kinds of things that captured your attention, the things that