When Death Comes

RCC_9838, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

... and I look upon time as no more than an idea,

and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common

as a field daisy, and as a singular ...

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

Mary Oliver, When Death Comes

Remembering Rhea Hildegarde Whitehead (January 22, 1936 - June 14, 2011) on a day of her funeral.

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